Help with a funded trial of Ketamine-Assisted Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement. Study the neural mechanisms of meditation + psychedelics with EEG and fMRI! Discover how self-transcendent states of consciousness can facilitate healing and recovery!
Hiring a Postdoc at UC San Diego to assist with clinical trials and neuroscience of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for addiction. Clinical psychology or psychiatry training preferred. Postdoc will provide psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions, analyze data, and write papers. Competitive salary! DM me.
Mental health clinicians 🡢 Discover how mindfulness-based therapies can enhance treatment and recovery from addictions. Join me and other expert faculty, for a 5-week webinar series. Mindfulness Approaches for Addictions Care. Jan 9 – Feb 13, 12-1:30pm ET. cha-ce.thinkific.com/courses/maac
Tune in this Sun. 9/7, at 9pm ET: @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social Endowed Professor @drericgarland.bsky.social will be on @cnn.com 'Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt.’ In the segment, Gupta explores #meditation practices that reduce pain—incl. those in Dr. Garland’s novel MORE therapy.
Meditation is a drug-free way to reduce pain! Watch me guide @drsanjaygupta use mindfulness meditation to reduce pain from a 119 degree metal probe on his arm! Sanjay was a star (of course) and dropped his pain from about a 7 (out of 10) to a 3.
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Here's a CNN podcast excerpt from my interview with Sanjay! www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
My work on drericgarland.com/about-m-o-r-e/ was featured in the book, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta's corresponding documentary, which will release on September 7 on CNN.
I'm excited to tell you about a new book called "It doesn't have to Hurt." Neurosurgeon and CNN reporter, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, spent three years doing the deep dive into pain. I think this book will change the way you think about pain, its relationship to the brain, and surprising ways to treat it.
New Podcast 🎧: Should You 'Lean Into' Your #ChronicPain to Relieve It? Tune into @cnn.com Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new episode of #ChasingLife to hear @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social Endowed Professor @drericgarland.bsky.social explain how #meditation can be as effective as #opioids in treating #chronicpain.
Strengthening recovery from chronic pain and opioid use: I was recently interviewed by Dr Sanjay Gupta on CNN about my work on Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5IWA...
Postdoc will work on trials of mindfulness, psychedelics, and neurofeedback/neuromodulation for opioid addiction and chronic pain
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I’m looking for a postdoc to join me at UCSD, ideally a clinical psychologist PhD who can deliver mindfulness interventions as well as write papers and do analyses. I have one of the world’s largest psychophysiology datasets of opioid misuse, OUD, & chronic pain. Competitive salary. DM or email.
I’m looking for a postdoc to help me study mindfulness and psychedelics at @UCSDHealth! Preferred: Psychology PhDs with experience delivering mindfulness to patients, as well as writing and statistical skills. But I’m open to other disciplines. Competitive salary. DM or email me!
Tagging #Neuroskyence for reach!
Preferred candidates would have experience working with patients with addiction and/or chronic pain, and strong statistical and writing skills. Neuroscience skills would also be valued (but not needed).
I'm looking for a postdoc to join me at UCSD ONEMIND (Optimized Neuroscience-Enhanced Mindfulness Intervention Design) in the Dept of Psychiatry. I'm looking for a clinical psych PhD with experience treating addiction and pain who is interested in delivering mindfulness for NIH-funded trials.
Thanks Kush - looking forward to our collaborations!
One thing that amazes me about these data is that the magnitude of MORE’s effect on increasing savoring in the brain is the same as the magnitude of the brain deficit in savoring in people with opioid use disorder.
The greater the deficit in savoring, the more intense the participants craved opioids. But then we showed we could restore their ability to savor with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement, as shown by EEG activity. And this increase in savoring capacity led to a decrease in opioid craving.
They showed blunted brain responses to savoring images like this one.
In our new paper in JAMA psychiatry, we first showed that people with opioid addiction and pain had a neural deficit in the ability to savor natural healthy rewards.
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Here’s the new paper on JAMA Psychiatry, hot off the presses! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Thanks, happy to be here and share my work in this venue
We found using EEG that patients with OUD and chronic pain had difficulty savoring natural healthy pleasure, which was correlated with higher opioid craving. Then we showed that MORE normalized this savoring deficit, which in turn reduced opioid craving.
I’m excited to announce that our new paper was published in @jama.com Psychiatry ! Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) normalizes brain markers of positive emotion dysregulation in opioid use disorder.
I’m thrilled by this work, and thrilled to be a part of the Sanford Institute!
Hey friends and colleagues, I am new here on Bluesky! As a first post, I'd like to share my new Nature Mental Health commentary with you. It's a little thought piece about translating science into solutions to address the opioid crisis. Hope you enjoy!
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