Research Lab @uwmadison focusing on changes that underlie loss and altered states of consciousness, and the psychedelic experience. Student supported account š§
Exciting news on the #PortaSophia front: Our CFP for the Archival Researcher Network (ARN) is live! Please share widely, especially with #historians of #psychedelics. Info sessions throughout Feb, Kickoff Event June 1st-3rd 2022. šš portasophia.org/archival-resā¦
#GetToKnow the #WashUNeuroCommunity: Caitlin Murphy, PhD (@camurphy3), postdoc @WashUPain in the Creed Lab, uses electrophysiology to ask how synaptic changes observed at the intersection of pain/reward pathways contribute to the nociceptive and affective symptoms of chronic pain
Exciting news on the #PortaSophia front: Our CFP for the Archival Researcher Network (ARN) is live! Please share widely, especially with #historians of #psychedelics. Info sessions throughout Feb, Kickoff Event June 1st-3rd 2022. šš portasophia.org/archival-resā¦
Exciting new speakers coming in to talk to us about their work! First being Joseph Pattinson on Feb 8 āDrugs, Violence, and Latin America: Global Psychotropy and Cultureā lacis.wisc.edu/event/drugs-vā¦
Very happy to announce that UW Madison won university of the year for psychedelic science in last weeks microdose awards! Our researchers are constantly striving to further the field with our clinical and preclinical work so itās an honor to be recognized! @MicrodoseHQ
Our lab at yesterdayās Psychedelics symposium! We had presentations by Dr. Banks, Zarmeen, and a poster presentation by Jack, Aidan, and Mallory! Proud is an understatement š„°šš
PhD candidate in neuroscience at UW @zarmeen_z presenting now on "Changes in Synaptic Excitability Following Psychedelic Administration," using in vivo & in vitro electrophysiology in mice šš @UWTCRPS@UWMadPharmacy#Psychedelics#UWPsychedelics
Dr. Matthew Banks now unapologetically giving a "hardcore neuroscience" talk: "The Short & Long of it: A Multiphasic Model of Psychedelic Effects on Brain & Behavior" at #UWPsychedelics Symposium @UWTCRPS@UWMadPharmacy#Psychedelics
Proud of our Undegraduate students Jack, Mallory, and Aidan for presenting their results in a poster session at the first inaugural psychedelics symposium!
Dr. Alberto Vargas in his talk about psychedelic use in Latin America, telling us about Wise Woman Maria Sabina āwho was a kind and gentle wise womanā contacted by Gordon Wasson to experience a ceremony. He said āwe lack words to describe the experience, we are bemushroomedā