Consistent with our review, another study finding that psilocybin enhances fear extinction learning: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity @ UT Austin! I’m recruiting a clinical psychologist or neuroscientist to join us in 2025/2026. Our work: fear/threat + fMRI + EMA + HiTOP + anxiety/trauma/OC psychopathology in adults & adolescents + fancy stats! 📄 Description: tinyurl.com/2jfk8d8m 🌐 Lab: www.scoop-lab.com

Hollaaaaaaa

7/ ... optimal scan time, so we recommend a scan time of at least 30 min. Compared with resting-state whole-brain prediction, the most cost-effective scan time is shorter for task-fMRI and longer for subcortical-to-whole-brain prediction.

Evidence that psilocybin produces perceived illusory motion across species: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some deep cuts from Harriet de Wit’s festschrift.

Not sure how I keep getting older while my PhD advisor stays the same age.

I learned 2 things today: 1) 55 yrs before Liechti's study (doi.org/10.1093/ijnp...), LSD trips were cut short at the 4-hr mark w/chlorpromazine, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC.... 2) Despite being a 1st gen antipsychotic, chlorpromazine blocks 5-HT2A (hence disrupting LSD's effects).

"The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure" wow. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧠📈🧠💻

I had a clip in an Austin blading video! Check out the link (timestamped at 18:14 for my trick): youtu.be/47AwH1WB52U?...

Important questions and important answers.

Our (Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff) commentary on @mattwall.bsky.social's recent paper comparing effects of psilocybin and escitalopram on emotional responses in the brain. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

A lot of bad news these days, so I thought I’d share some good news. Last week, in a celebration of 150 people coming from all over the world to Buenos Aires, I married a revolutionary. Also, I got promoted to Assistant Professor. And yes, there were robots.

Check out this transcranial focused ultrasound study by Greg Fonzo that I had a small part in. Online sonication of the left amygdala attenuated the BOLD response, and 3 weeks of sonication improved depression, anxiety, and PTSD: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Prototypical psychedelics during a traumatic event were protective against developing post-trauma systems compared to MDMA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... However @royesal.bsky.social found the opposite that MDMA was more protective than prototypical psychedelics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If I'm not mistaken, the next Easter egg blunt won't be for another 62 years. Hazy holidaze

Wild af

The Supreme Court unanimously agrees that Kilmar should be brought home, and that's my future wife in the blue on The New York Times cover! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

I get to be this baddie's husband next month! www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The judge ordered for Kilmar to be sent home! From my understanding, though, the government appealed, and it's not impossible that they won't even comply... www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

I want to discuss the post hoc justification for deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, supposed evidence of gang affiliation. I'd like to avoid getting too political & acknowledge my bias; my partner Lucia got him protected status in 2019. #bringkilmarhome 1/7 www.cbsnews.com/video/woman-...

What happens if you inhibit the amygdala during the formation of emotional episodic memories? Simple answer, right? We thought so too but ended up finding memory enhancements after inhibiting the amygdala via transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS). 1/2 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My partner's client was deported despite his protected status, and in a first, the administration actually admitted to messing up, but they're now powerless to have him released from the horrendous prison in El Salvador. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

My partner Lucia was quoted in The Washington Post regarding one of her clients who was disappeared despite having no criminal history and being granted humanitarian protection. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

My partner Lucia was recently on the news bc one of her past clients was on the controversial El Salvador deportation flights. I unfortunately have to tread carefully w/politics these days, but the govt has provided no evidence that he was a "bad hombre." www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...

PsyPost covered our paper on the memory enhancements we found during the acute effects of ayahuasca in experienced users. Please read the caveats (e.g., the memory enhancements were likely due to the β-carbolines). www.psypost.org/ayahuasca-ma...

Our memories are not encoded with timestamps. How do we reconstruct the passage of time from our memories? In a new paper (accepted at Psych Science) @samiyousif.bsky.social and I demonstrate a powerful illusion of time that results from repeated experience osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sometimes fancy science-y words are unnecessary (from Nature Reviews Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

Flippin out in New Zealand

Actually jk, it's starting at 4 PM CT (2 PM PT, 5 PM ET).

Doing a webinar today with @centerforminds.bsky.social at 2 PM CT (12 PM PT, 3 PM ET) on a new project we're starting! Sign up here: www.crowdcast.io/c/psychedeli...

Nice work @marcoaqil.bsky.social! Psilocybin increases Ebbinghaus illusion. Also, I think y'all replicated/translated a finding in rodents in which psychedelics reduce surround suppression www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (tho I think this reference might be missing).

Kanye just compared his antisemitic rant to an ayahuasca trip, showing once again that psychedelics have no inherent political leanings. www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

Huge news! The Cain Foundation is providing our center with a $12.5 million gift for psychedelic research. dellmed.utexas.edu/support/dono...

Been on my grind over the holidaze.

I recently commented in the Monitor on Psychology about how psychedelics might impact different forms of memory supported by the hippocampus vs. cortex: www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

I thought being Left/Right brained was dead but this proposes psychedelics release R from inhibition journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Easy to write off as another misguided psychedelic piece but lots of refs on supposed L hemisphere dominance. Anything to this or setting the field back 50 years?

Been a minute since I got a lil reckless.

“We were interested in how psychedelics impact something as complex as social cognition, so we looked at…resting-state fMRI.” 🤦🏾‍♂️ Sorry, thought these blue skies could use a bit of shade…

More evidence that psychedelics may post-acutely enhance hippocampal-dependent memory encoding (despite acutely impairing hippocampal-dependent memory encoding): www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

If you’re at #ACNP2024, check out our posters on focused ultrasound on Tuesday night. I’ll specifically be trying to explain my way out of an unexpected finding in which we inhibited the amygdala and somehow enhanced episodic memory encoding.

Friends don’t let friends one-tail test.

New paper! This was a fun lil collaboration with Maastricht University in which we thought we might find evidence that ayahuasca would increase false memory in an observational study. WRONG! Ended up enhancing memory (but read 'til end for caveats) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/8

I guess I should finally post something here. We recently reviewed what is currently known on how psychedelics acutely & post-acutely impact fear conditioning, extinction learning, episodic memory, & semantic memory & how such fx may speak to PTSD treatment. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/10