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February 27, 2025

Papers of the month: February 2025

Check out some of the papers that were recently published by DMCBH members:   Judy Illes: Far from Home: Managing Incidental Findings in Field Research with Portable MRI  Journal: Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics  Portable MRI is a new technology expanding neuroimaging research into remote field settings, allowing the examination of populations previously excluded from research and marginalized in…

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Name Media Outlet Date Article
Teresa Liu-Ambrose Reader’s Digest Germany 02/01/2025 Simply Get Fit
Deanna Gibson Nature 05/12/2024 Microbiome interventions for children raise the ethical stakes
Brian Kwon Burnaby Now (Glacier Media) 28/11/2024 UBC study shows ‘alarming’ number of spinal cord injuries from mountain biking
Brian Kwon Vancouver Sun 25/11/2024 Barrage of carnage:’ B.C. spinal surgeon warns of rise in mountain-biking injuries
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Events

Dr. Boris Heifets: Psychedelics, anesthesia and dreaming

February 28

2215 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3 Canada

Zoom option if unable to attend in person: Zoom link here (click on “Join a meeting”) Meeting ID: 91512 289258 Passcode: 289258 In this lecture, I will discuss our group’s efforts to deconstruct the psychedelic ‘state’, drawing on both human and mouse experiments. While dreaming, anesthesia and psychedelics are often considered distinct, I argue that they share an underlying physiology, phenomenology and…

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