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Pasha Davoudian

@pashadavoudian.bsky.social
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md-phd student at yale | psychiatry, neuroscience | he/him medicine.yale.edu/profile/pasha_dav…

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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New preprint + thread 🧵 #Psychedelics induce the formation of new synapses, but where do they connect? Our rabies tracing study reveals that #psilocybin shifts connectivity across specific cortical networks. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/12
Summary figure for study of psilocybin's effect on cortical network connectivity.
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Devin Effinger, Ph.D @deffinger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
People have warned about #psychedelics and 5-HT2B receptor activation for years — citing potential cardiotoxicity. But no one had tested it. Until now. We used echocardiography to assess cardiac risk after chronic LSD microdosing in mice. @sthom003.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Assessing the potential cardiovascular risk of microdosing the psychedelic LSD in mice
Microdosing, the prolonged ingestion of psychedelics at sub-hallucinogenic doses, has gained popularity for its perceived cognitive and emotional benefits. Psychedelics have high affinity for 5-HT2B r...
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our latest study identifies a specific cell type and receptor essential for psilocybin’s long-lasting neural and behavioral effects 🍄🔬🧠🧪 Led by Ling-Xiao Shao and @ItsClaraLiao Funded by @NIH @NIMHgov 📄 Read in @nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/12
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Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors - Nature
A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action.
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Can whole-brain imaging of cellular c-Fos signals be used to classify #psychedelics? 🧠🔬💊 Our study by @aboharbf.bsky.social and @pashadavoudian.bsky.social, developing an imaging and machine learning pipeline to test a panel of psychoactive drugs. Paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Classification of psychedelics and psychoactive drugs based on brain-wide imaging of cellular c-Fos expression - Nature Communications
A challenge in psychiatric drug discovery is to predict the therapeutic potential of a novel compound. Here, the authors show that brain-wide imaging of immediate early gene expression can be used to ...
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Devin Effinger, Ph.D @deffinger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On tonight: Given that classical #psychedelics are 5-HT2B agonists, there is concern of a potential cardiovascular risk with prolonged use. To resemble human context, we chronically administered 2 low doses of LSD and performed echocardiograms at baseline, 4-, and 8-weeks. #ACNP2024
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Alex Kwan @alexkwan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Look forward to #ACNP2024 🧠💊☀️ I am glad to organize a Tuesday panel with @bita137.bsky.social on "Manipulation of aversive events and memories by psychedelics" Followed by Tuesday posters by current and past lab members @pashadavoudian.bsky.social and Sarah Jefferson
Kwan lab talk and posters at ACNP 2024
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