Ben Bréant
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Sleep & dream researcher @ DreamTeam ICM DPhil in Sleep & Psychedelics 🧙♂️💤
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"Paradoxical wake" archive paper update, with new content & new prospects 🧪🧠 We show global slow waves after psychedelic administration + eye monitoring of freely-moving mice! A thrilling project with
@vyazovskiy.bsky.social
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@oxforddpag.bsky.social
#EEG
#sleep
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sleep-like state during wakefulness induced by psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT in mice
Psychedelics lead to profound changes in subjective experience and behaviour, which are typically conceptualised in psychological terms rather than corresponding to an altered brain state or a distinc...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.11.519886v2
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I passed my DPhil viva yesterday 🎉 A huge thanks to my examiner, Stuart Peirson and Matt Jones who've done an exceptional job, and a bigger thanks to my Dphil supervisors Vlad Vyazovskiy, David Bannerman and Trevor Sharp!
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"Paradoxical wake" archive paper update, with new content & new prospects 🧪🧠 We show global slow waves after psychedelic administration + eye monitoring of freely-moving mice! A thrilling project with
@vyazovskiy.bsky.social
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@oxforddpag.bsky.social
#EEG
#sleep
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sleep-like state during wakefulness induced by psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT in mice
Psychedelics lead to profound changes in subjective experience and behaviour, which are typically conceptualised in psychological terms rather than corresponding to an altered brain state or a distinc...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.11.519886v2
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Thomas Andrillon
12 months ago
The Paris Brain Institute has its start pack!
go.bsky.app/Km2Qe2D
Courtesy of
@nikolaskaralis.bsky.social
! If you are from ICM and want to join, let him know! If you don't know ICM, you can find more info here:
parisbraininstitute.org
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An excellent read on hibernation from Vlad Vyazovskiy, and thoughts provoking as per usual!
aeon.co/essays/how-a...
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How animals learned to hibernate and why we can’t do it (yet) | Aeon Essays
Hibernation allows many animals to time-travel from difficult times to plenty. Could humans learn how to do it too?
https://aeon.co/essays/how-animals-learned-to-hibernate-and-why-we-cant-do-it-yet
12 months ago
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Science & Academic peeps: You work with psychedelic? You know someone who work on psychedelics? Come my way! Let's expand our footprint on this network 🍄🧠🧪
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reposted by
Ben Bréant
Thomas Andrillon
12 months ago
We (S Sarasso, A Tzovara & K Peller) guest-edited a special issue for the Eur J of Neuroscience Measures & Mechanisms of Consciousness
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
🧠🧪💤 12 articles on sleep, dreams, mind blanking, disorders of consciousness & more! With a great cover from Nicolas Decat
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Before working on dreams and human, I was studying psychedelic & sleep in rodents! In this preprint from my DPhil thesis, we show the occurence of an altered state with features of both sleep and wake in mice injected with 5-MeO-DMT. Stay tune, there is more to come!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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“Paradoxical wakefulness” induced by psychedelic 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine in mice
Vigilance states – waking, slow-wave sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep, are thought to be controlled by several cortical and subcortical neuromodulatory circuits, among which the serotonergic (5-HT) s...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.11.519886v1
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