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benbreant.bsky.social
Sleep & dream researcher @ DreamTeam ICM DPhil in Sleep & Psychedelics 🧙‍♂️💤
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I passed my DPhil viva yesterday 🎉 A huge thanks to my examiner, Stuart Peirson and Matt Jones who've done an exceptional job, and a bigger thanks to my Dphil supervisors Vlad Vyazovskiy, David Bannerman and Trevor Sharp!

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"Paradoxical wake" archive paper update, with new content & new prospects 🧪🧠 We show global slow waves after psychedelic administration + eye monitoring of freely-moving mice! A thrilling project with @vyazovskiy.bsky.social & @oxforddpag.bsky.social #EEG #sleep www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The Paris Brain Institute has its start pack! go.bsky.app/Km2Qe2D Courtesy of @nikolaskaralis.bsky.social ! If you are from ICM and want to join, let him know! If you don't know ICM, you can find more info here: parisbraininstitute.org

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An excellent read on hibernation from Vlad Vyazovskiy, and thoughts provoking as per usual! aeon.co/essays/how-a...

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

Science & Academic peeps: You work with psychedelic? You know someone who work on psychedelics? Come my way! Let's expand our footprint on this network 🍄🧠🧪

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We (S Sarasso, A Tzovara & K Peller) guest-edited a special issue for the Eur J of Neuroscience Measures & Mechanisms of Consciousness onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... 🧠🧪💤 12 articles on sleep, dreams, mind blanking, disorders of consciousness & more! With a great cover from Nicolas Decat

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment

Before working on dreams and human, I was studying psychedelic & sleep in rodents! In this preprint from my DPhil thesis, we show the occurence of an altered state with features of both sleep and wake in mice injected with 5-MeO-DMT. Stay tune, there is more to come! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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