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Rick Zirkel

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Postdoc @ Stanford University | Heifets & Malenka Labs | Studying MDMA drug action in vivo 🧠

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More super important new science cautioning how we measure brain activity under the acute effects of psychedelics! Huge congrats to the authors!! πŸ§ πŸ©ΈπŸ„πŸ”¬

16.10.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New preprint from collaboration with @sn-lab.bsky.social - 2p imaging of psilocybin's effects on neurovascular coupling πŸ§ πŸ”¬

We found that psilocybin prolongs the neurovascular response, independent of neural activity.

This would affect how we should interpret fMRI BOLD studies of psychedelics ‼️

01.08.2025 17:30 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Excited to share our latest work is up on bioRxiv! Looking at capillary flow speed changes we show that psilocybin prolongs the neurovascular coupling response to a visual stimulus. πŸ„πŸ”¬πŸ§ πŸ©Έ

@chris-schaffer.bsky.social @alexkwan.bsky.social @sn-lab.bsky.social

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

01.08.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5
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Our paper on MouseGoggles - an open-source mini VR headset for mice - just came out! Really excited about finally integrating eye-tracking into the headset. Nice working with you @hongyuchang.bsky.social!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
github.com/sn-lab/Mouse...
#neuroskyence

12.12.2024 14:05 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3