Alex Kwan Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Alex Kwan is a neuroscientist whose work is focused on the neurobiology of antidepressants. He is known for using sophisticated optical imaging methods to study how drugs such as ketamine and psilocybin modify the structure and function of brain circuitry. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals including Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and Biological Psychiatry. He has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. You can follow Alex on Twitter at @kwanalexc. For further reading, he and his colleagues have written an introduction to psychedelics, intended to be concise and accessible to everyone. Details of his research can be found on the website of his research lab. Papers / Presentations: Introduction to Psychedelics (2021) Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo (2021) Participant In: Psychedelics Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else. That there might be a shortcut, a wormhole, a portal to some new and improved state of mind… read more »
Psychedelics Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 2:30pm EST Past Event Watch the video » Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else. That there might be a shortcut, a wormhole, a portal to some new and improved state of mind… read more »