Ben Bréant
@benbreant.bsky.social
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Sleep & dream researcher @ DreamTeam ICM DPhil in Sleep & Psychedelics 🧙‍♂️💤
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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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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
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
benbreant.bsky.social
Hey Nikolas! Can you add me as well? Thanks! 😄
benbreant.bsky.social
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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thomasandrillon.bsky.social
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
benbreant.bsky.social
Hey Tony, great thing!
I'd love to join if you'll have me 🙂
benbreant.bsky.social
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...
“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...
www.biorxiv.org