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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD

@labasedow.bsky.social
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Postdoc & Clinical Psychologist @unimarburg.bsky.social‬ & @SFB-TRR-289.bsky.social Interested in development of drug use, drug use disorders, and developmental consequences of drug use. All views my own.

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 09/10/2026
Send your best work to PCI Psychology (psych.peercommunityin.org) where it will receive high quality & open peer review free of commercial interference. We review a variety of article types from a wide range of psychological topics (psych.peercommunityin.org/help/help_ge...).
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.
Chapters in Part III take stock of the current state of evolutionary psychology, by casting wider attention to other social and behavioral sciences and assessing the field's influence on them. In Chapter 11 ('Evolutionary psychology and anthropology'), Heiner Rindermann identifies three major forces that oppose scientific anthropology: Religion, National Socialism ('Nazism'), and woke leftist ideology. Ironically, in this sense, woke left ideologues, who include most anthropologists themselves, geneticists, and other university academics, share much in common with the Nazis in their common opposition to scientific anthropology.
Rindermann's extensive review of the literature leaves no doubt that humans are genetically polytypic and contain different biological races or 'subspecies' At the end of the chapter, Rindermann delivers devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments against the notion of races/subspecies among humans.
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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 06/10/2026
Addiction has become the default framework for interpreting problematic social media use. It shapes how it is measured, discussed, regulated, and what support young people are offered. But does it match the experiences of young people who report feeling addicted to social media? 🧵(1/7)
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Johannes C. Ehrenthal @ehrenthal-lab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Die "Korrekturen" zum Psychotherapiezerstörungsgesetz sind nun vorgelegt. Um es mit aller gebotenen Zurückhaltung zu formulieren: Dieses Gesetz hat entweder zum Ziel oder zur Folge, die gewachsenen Versorgungsstrukturen zu zerschlagen, was bei hohen Prävalenzzahlen und Folgekosten völlig absurd ist.
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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 03/10/2026
Researchers and academics who use AI are helping legitimize and entrench a technology that is specifically being aimed against us. The powerful WANT a lying machine that can undercut facts. neurodojo.blogspot.com/2026/09/we-w...
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“We will never let anyone tell us what to do again”
I’ve long thought that part of the anger of the right wing over the handling of the covid pandemic was the realization that, “Someone else c...
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️
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Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...
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Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
aeon.co/essays/a-sci...
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A scientist’s search for answers about Amanita muscaria gummies | Aeon Essays
When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more
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Rosalind McAlpine @rosmcalpine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're now recruiting UCL MRes/MSc students (eg Cog Neuro / Brain Sciences) for the 2026/27 academic year to join several research projects involving psilocybin and nitrous oxide. If you're a student on one of these programmes and would like to find out more, email ucjurgm@ucl.ac.uk or dm here 😊
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm so impressed with all that's going on at @sinaibrain.bsky.social. Here are 5 highlights. 1. @bshev.bsky.social ++ are measuring dopamine and serotonin *in living human brains* and using them to predict treatment outcomes. Wow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Dopamine and serotonin transients predict depressive symptom relief following deep brain stimulation of human subcallosal cingulate cortex
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fantastic work as always. Is was wondering how you'd integrate these results with recreational opioid use? Afaik recreational users do feel highly euphoric/pleasant. Do you reckon this is due to the different roa (smoking/iv vs oral use)? Or maybe a setting effect? Such cool and inspiring work
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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ever had opioids & enjoyed them? Our work shows you might be a minority- or the enjoyment stemmed from pain relief? We compared preoperative opioid effects (RCT, N=199, little pain) & found: 🟥 LARGE effects on drug high/sedation/dizziness 🔸SMALL effects on well-being www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Intoxication and other subjective effects of preanesthetic opioids in surgical patients: A randomized controlled trial
Karlsen et al. show that patients experience marked undesirable effects but minimal desirable effects after preoperative intravenous opioids.
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Shawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How do advanced meditators deconstruct experience? Happy to announce that the peer-reviewed version of Towards an Active Inference Account of Deep Meditative Deconstruction is now out open access in Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social - work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social🧵
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Working on a new taxonomy for research methods
Punt square with rows depicting data collection (fun, not fun) and columns depicting data analysis (fun, not fun)

Qual interviews are listed as fun to collect and not fun to analyze while surveys are listed as fun to analyze but not fun to collect
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New from my lab! So, you've heard that habituation during exposure doesn't predict overall treatment change. Emotional processing theory must be wrong and we need a new theory. But... what if the measurement of habituation was unreliable? Free for 50 days link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1noIo39qZA...
The "always has been" theme with the first astronaut saying "Wait it's all measurement" ("Always has been")
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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What value are you actually bringing as a mentor if you do this. It would’ve been more helpful to not say anything
Screenshot of Reddit post.

Title: PI will not stop using Grok for revising
*MY* papers

Text: My Pl (a respected, tenured STEM faculty at an R1) will not stop using Grok for everything and I feel like I'm losing my mind. I'm defending in a few weeks and am in the last minute rush to get everything edited, formatted, and submitted to the university for content review. One week before my goal date to send everything to my committee to review, Pl emails me a 10 page Grok thread wherein PI shared my last chapter and associated tables/figures and asked it to find errors and suggest revisions. Grok did find 2 valid technical errors I made in my analysis, but also suggested replacing several of the major analyses with different approaches and adding 3 more major analysis steps (one of which I don't have the data to perform). PI emailed me saying that they'll approve my chapter once I make all the changes Grok requested. None of this makes any sense because PI has been aware of the main research questions, methods, and results for this project for at least the last 7 months- and now all of a sudden there are major, fatal flaws that weren't there before.
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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bewerbungen sind noch bis zum 27.9. möglich. Bei Fragen gern bei mir melden!
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Kevin Kelley @kevinkelley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/ I have long dreamed of systems that could causally model human neurobiology across scales, from molecular to behavioral. In @nature.com, delighted to share our efforts at creating xenocortical mice where human organoids grow to occupy most of mouse cortex.
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'll be reviewing applications for a new student or two for UNC-CH's clinical psychology PhD program! Social anxiety, pain, intensive longitudinal data, all that fun stuff. What prospective applicants get if they email me (so no need): docs.google.com/document/d/1... Lab: tarheels.live/rodelab/
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Welcome to the Rodebaugh Lab Website - Rodebaugh Laboratory
Welcome to the Rodebaugh lab website! Here you can learn about what Dr. Rodebaugh & colleagues are working on and what research is being conducted.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026
Art Stinchcombe (1997).
The guts of institutions is that somebody somewhere really cares to hold an organization to the standards and is often paid to do that. Sometimes that somebody is inside the organization, maintaining its competence. Sometimes it is in an accrediting body, sending out volunteers to see if there is really any algebra in the algebra course. And sometimes that somebody, or his or her commitment, is lacking, in which case the center cannot hold, and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
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Alaina Jaster, PhD @jasteralaina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Xylo Bio has moved up! We’ve begun our first-in-human Phase 1 clinical trial assessing XYL-1001, a selective 5HT2A agonist, in healthy volunteers! www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Xylo Bio Achieves Clinical-Stage Milestone with XYL-1001, a Highly Selective Neuroplastogen Targeting Major Depressive Disorder
/PRNewswire/ -- Xylo Bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel neurotherapeutics for psychiatric and neurological disorders, today announced...
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Society for the Study of Addiction @addiction-ssa.org · 11/09/2026
With the retirement of Professor Rainer Spanagel at Addiction Biology after more than two decades, there is an exciting opportunity to lead this scientific journal into a new era. Apply to be Editor-in-Chief by 8 October: www.addiction-ssa.org/about/people...
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 11/09/2026
That sentiment is exactly contrary to what universities advertise. Unis themselves have very deliberately marketed themselves as an essential part of capitalist success rather than as a valuable goal independent of capitalism altogether.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the whole point for me of becoming an academic was to get to spend my life reading the thoughts of other weird little minds, and helping those other weird little minds find their own way, and AI has largely stolen that from me, and I will never be okay with it.
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Ioana A. Cristea @ioanaacristea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our atlas of psychotherapy lists, for six major mental disorders, the unique psychological treatments studied in randomized trials, with protocol/manual references. You can also search by therapy macro-family, like CBT. ioanaalina.github.io/Psychotherap... Paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42457338/
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Atlas of Psychological Interventions for Severe Mental Disorders
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That's it for the week!
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Already posted this but just want to highlight it again. Started reading and think it's really a worthwhile read for most psychological scientists osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another convincing entry into the single-session-intervention corpus! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42574294/
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ACT and CBT single-session interventions reduce procrastination among students compared to a control group - The CONCRAS study - PubMed
Procrastination is highly prevalent among university students and associated with substantial impairments in well-being and functioning. This randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of two single-session interventions (SSIs) - one based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and one on Acc …
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A great paper and convincing model of stress generation in internalizing disorders, that also matches my clinical experience very well.. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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A process model of stress generation in internalizing disorders - Nature Reviews Psychology
The stress generation model suggests that an individual’s characteristics can increase their chances of experiencing stressful life events. In this Perspective, Starr et al. detail the mechanistic pro...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A really fantastic paper detailing the complex pharmacology of ketamine! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here is a nice overview regarding the results and the importance of the study www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Structural basis of opioid receptor activation by PCP and ketamine - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Jiang, Han and Fine and colleagues show that ketamine and phencyclidine can directly bind to and activate opioid receptors. Using structural and pharmacological approaches, they showed how these drugs...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Impressive imaging technique and considerable effort to scan people in the middle of psychosis. Does feel a bit overblown to me but definitely a fascinating approach! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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7T magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of subcortical neurometabolites across antipsychotic treatment in acutely symptomatic early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of subcortical neurometabolites across antipsychotic treatment in acutely symptomatic early-phase schizophrenia spectrum disorders
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A very interesting read! I do love a bit of history of science and here especially the call for increased clarity and less murkiness. Which always tends to pop up in research on subjective drug effects. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42467097/
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The mystic trip: how psychedelic research fell for mysticism - PubMed
It advocates for rebranding the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) to the Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire (PEQ), emphasising that this change accords nicely with the idea of Psychedelic Experience which Walter Pahnke developed in his later research, as a five-part typology, and liberates t …
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A really dense but worthwhile and fascinating read. I don't think I'm entirely on board with the authors proposal but very much appreciate the attempt at working these issues out! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Frontiers | Problem-sustaining patterns: redesigning the concept of mental disorder
We propose the concept of a problem-sustaining pattern as a revision of the established concept of mental disorder. The proposed concept preserves valuable f...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A highly relevant and depressing look into the issues underlying modern peer review by @deevybee.bsky.social deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce...
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Acceleration of the arms race between fraudsters and honest researchers
I was recently asked to review a paper that piqued my curiosity. From the abstract it sounded as if it was a secondary analysis of a datas...
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Another week of great science and interesting papers:
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just curious if you have seen this recent work: psych.peercommunityin.org/PCIPsycholog... I haven't had time to read this OR your paper, so can't say for sure but seems like it might be of interest to you :)
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The superposition of these two studies — both incredible — reflect a snapshot of "one big thing" systems neuroscience has yet to resolve. In mice: 1. Task-related signals are everywhere. 2. Absent large swaths of "everywhere," suprisingly sophisticated learning & behavior remains.
Post by Enny van Beest, "Brainwide representation of navigation"Post by Jieyu Zheng, "How fast can mice learn complex mazes?"
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/09/2026
Fun little game in which a human life is randomly drawn for you. I ended up a girl, born in the Yangtze Basin in 670 CE. Died in infancy at 6 months 🥲 anyhumanever.com
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Absolut lesenswert!
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Hannah R Snyder @hannahrsnyder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Saying yes to collaborations: A love story 🧵 Inspired by a conversation w/ one of my grad students today about if she should take on a collaboration. We focus a lot on learning to say no (there are even punch cards) but IMO learning to say yes to the right things is equally important. . .
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can't wait to dig into this. Definitely a step forward that's direly needed for addiction/drug use research! Now all we need is to repeat this for all other drugs of choice and their combinations 😁
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is a wonderful philosophy and applies well to peer review requests.
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Melanie Fischer @melaniefischer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team zum Aufbau eines Ambulanzbereichs für Psychotherapie mit Paaren/Familien und Paartherapie. Gerne mit Interesse, im Rahmen einer unbefristeten Stelle diesen Bereich im schönen Marburg langfristig mitzugestalten. Ich freue mich sehr darauf! Mehr👇🏻
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in und Psychologische*r Psychotherapeut*in
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How fast to things change in academia? I wrote this as a new lecturer in 14 years ago, clearly optimistic about how web 2.0 would change scientific publishing, but it's only gotten much, much worse. darrendahly.github.io/post/2012-02...
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How can we fix scientific publishing? |
Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer
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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm
Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I enjoyed writing this piece for The Transmitter. AI is a seismic change for science. What we make of it is up to us, but it’s a decision we can only make collectively. I hope more labs, and the field at large, will engage in finding a shared view of how we want to use AI.
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Fred Barrett @fredbarrettphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excited to share our new paper in Psychopharmacology: A pilot study comparing high-dose oral Δ9-THC, psilocybin, and placebo under the same set and setting used in psychedelic clinical trials. @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/n
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That's it for this week :)
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Lukas A. Basedow, PhD @labasedow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Very impressive dataset and probably a very impressive analysis as well, but I don't quite understand the full gist of it. What I do understand seems quite interesting. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Lifespan brain structural variation reveals shared organization across mental health conditions
Elucidating the neurobiological basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions (NDPCs) remains challenging because brain alterations vary within diagnoses and overlap across them. Whether dive...
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