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Manoj Doss not exist

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Cognitive Neuropsychopharmacologist, Assistant Professor at Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy at UT Austin DMS: Drugs of (ab)use, especially psychedelics | memory, especially episodic https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFo44R0AAAA

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Nov 26

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...
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How Psychedelics Modulate Multiple Memory Mechanisms in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder - Drugs

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder with defining abnormalities in memory, and psychedelics may be promising candidates for the treatment of PTSD given their effects on mult...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 2d

Check out my comment in The Times about MDMA and false memory:
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Amy Griffin’s abuse memoir triggers row over ‘false memory’

The New York socialite said she had recovered buried trauma during MDMA therapy about being abused by a teacher. Psychologists have doubts about the practice

www.thetimes.com

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 5d

Have you had an insight related to your work/hobby after taking a psychedelic (not a personal insight)? We're running a survey backed by the Center for Minds to understand such insights. It takes ~30 mins & pays $15.
tiny.cc/Psychedelics...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 7d

New easy-to-read article in The Scientist on how psychedelics work, inconsistencies in leading narratives (no punches were pulled…), and work coming out of our center on the impact of psychedelics on memory. With Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff.
www.the-scientist.com/how-psychede...

How Psychedelics Affect the Brain: What We Know, and What We Think We Know

Twenty years into the Psychedelic Renaissance, neuroscientists still struggle to understand how psychedelics work and how to rectify misconceptions about these drugs.

www.the-scientist.com

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Sam Cooper PhD @samcooper.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨 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

cooper_postdoc_description_2025.pdf

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hollaaaaaaa

ACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · Aug 8

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

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.

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Cross-Species Evidence for Psilocin-Induced Visual Distortions: Apparent Motion Is Perceived by Both Humans and Rats

Psychedelics, particularly psilocin, are increasingly being studied for their mind-altering effects and potential therapeutic applications in psychiat…

www.sciencedirect.com

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 27

Some deep cuts from Harriet de Wit’s festschrift.

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 25

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).

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Jun 11

"The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure"

wow.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure

PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cult—the Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

Soirée

YouTube video by Ant Medina

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 9

Methamphetamine modulates functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention and arousal

Building on evidence that psychostimulants modulate whole-brain functional connectivity signatures of sustained attention, we examined how a single dose of methamphetamine (MA, 20 mg) changes network-...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 7

Important questions and important answers.

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looks like a fun citizen science study I would've enjoyed taking part in w/ my two feline scientists. I'm sure one of them (Tiger) will sit inside the actual square contour, but not sure if she'd fall for the Kanizsa illusion like that gray cat in the picture.

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Pictures of "feline scientists" participating in a "citizen science" study testing whether cats would fall for an optical illusion known as the Kanizsa contour illusion.

The stimuli used in the Kanizsa illusion study conducted by Smith, Chouinard, & Byosiere (2021).

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Jun 2

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/...

There’s More Than One Way to Bring Health Back: Divergent Effects of Psilocybin and Escitalopram Treatment on Emotional Brain Function in Depression | American Journal of Psychiatry

PsychiatryOnline.org is the platform for all American Psychiatric Association Publishing journals, DSM, and bestselling textbooks, as well as APA Practice Guidelines, and continuing medical education.

psychiatryonline.org

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · May 30

If I were going to Denver, I totally would consider it (left the country 4 times in the last 6 months, so tryna avoid travel for a bit), though I was thinking about saving it for a far-in-the-future dream keynote with tenure situation. If that time ever comes, it’ll be motivation to get fit haha.

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · May 30

And it’s crazy cuz depending on the light, it’s actually quite purple. Had to do a lil psychedelic nod.

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · May 30

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.

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · May 28

Could it be the case that attention (and thus attention network) is still impacted during an attention-demanding situation (especially given that the comparison here is drug-free rest, a condition in which people tend to fall asleep)?

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Apr 25

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...

Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound amygdala neuromodulation: a double-blind sham-controlled target engagement study and unblinded single-arm clinical trial - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound amygdala neuromodulation: a double-blind sham-controlled target engagement study and unblinded single-arm clinical trial

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Apr 20

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

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Apr 19

Wild af

Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Apr 19

Real-time targeted laser stimulation of thousands of individual cones in the retina to produce perception of a novel color (in humans!).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale

Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.

www.science.org

Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · Apr 11

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...

Supreme Court Sides With Migrant Trump Administration Wrongly Deported

A trial judge had ordered the Trump administration to take steps to return the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a notorious prison in El Salvador.