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Veterans are healing their wounds w psychedelics nytimes.com/2022/05/21/wor…

Psychedelic-assisted therapy as a potential game changer therapy to prevent suicide among veterans. In the NYT again in this Memorial Day. nytimes.com/2022/05/29/hea…

Coffee drinkers rejoice! Coffee can lower your risk of dying by 30 percent. “It’s huge. There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent,”. nytimes.com/2022/06/01/wel…

You were a great leader on that tricky but key paper!

This rather lengthy article offers some evidence-based approaches cities can use to reduce homelessness nytimes.com/2022/06/14/hea…

There are thirteen talks free to watch from the Exeter Research Colloquium on Psychedelics now available (from David Nutt, Ben Sessa, Celia Morgan, Chris Timmermann, david erritzoe, @MegJSpriggs, Andy Letcher, David Luke, Matthew Watkins, and others): blogs.exeter.ac.uk/philosophyandp…

As an editor, I often read discussions that are long winded, meandering and fail to make an impact. They feel like an after-thought rather than a key part of the paper. Here are some tips to make your discussion better. Full credit to Sanjay Saint who taught me this years ago!

My esteemed colleagues and friends are leading the wave of investigating a potential game-changing therapy for veterans’ PTSD. Go ⁦@ChrisStaufferMD⁩ Stauffer, Leslie 🏳️‍🌈 Morland, and ⁦Rachel Yehuda!! nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/…

Even more great NYT PR for my friends and colleagues who are studying psychedelic- assisted therapies for veterans’ PTSD and other mental health issues!! Go ⁦@ChrisStaufferMD⁩ ⁦Rachel Yehuda⁩ and Leslie Morland! nytimes.com/2022/06/24/wel…

Covid (UC San Francisco) Chronicles, Day 838 The die is now cast: BA.5 is destined to be our dominant virus. In today’s 🧵I discuss the implications on the course of the pandemic, and how to think about responding. (I use “BA.5” & not “BA.4/5” since BA.5 is poised to outrun BA.4.). (1/25)

Vision might be another key risk factor for dementia, w the possible mechanism of action being neural stimulation via The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/07/03/hea…

Today we released the 2022 research funding opp for RWJF's Systems for Action Research Program. Proposals due Oct 5. Seeking BIG new frontiers in aligning medical, social & public health systems to root out structural inequities in health. More here: my.rwjf.org/viewCfp.do?cfp…

Fadel Zeidan just published exceptionally important research on a novel mechanism of mindfulness-based analgesia: decoupling self-reference from pain. ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/m…

The debate about psychedelic-assisted therapy is now not “does it work”, but “how does it work”. Is it an effect of the molecules affecting the brain or is it also the hallucinations that people experience? via New York Times Opinion nytimes.com/2022/07/15/opi…

The OIG found the EPA ignored over 100 studies showing cancer risk for a commonly used crop soil fumigant (1,3-D) and downgraded its cancer risk. Apparently the EPA did not adhere to standard operating procedures and requirements in doing its assessment. epa.gov/office-inspect…

In the NYT again- “ Psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, has shown promise in limited early studies, not only in alcohol and harder drugs, but also nicotine — all of which resist long term treatment. via The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/03/31/wel…

'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may help heavy drinkers quit | AP News apnews.com/article/mushro…

The International Society for Contemplative Research (ISCR) International Society for Contemplative Research is holding their inaugural annual conference on February 2-5, 2023! The deadline for proposals, workshops, roundtables, panels, presentations, & posters closes 9/12!👇iscrconference.org

PBS NOVA: Can Psychedelics Cure? Watch online or tonight at 9PM. This program looks at the history of psychedelic compounds and their potential therapeutic uses. Featuring CPCR scientists Drs. Roland Griffiths, Fred Barrett, and Albert Garcia-Romeu! pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vide…

Apply for this awesome, 2-year #impsci cohort training, and learn from global faculty as well as a global network of trainees and scientists! Applications due April 3. Read more ⬇️ Providence/Boston CFAR Advance RI-CTR Brown University School of Public Health Brown Psychiatry and Human Behavior CIIS