Ben Hobson

Psychiatry resident @CUAnschutz 🏔️ | 🧠 🧬 🔬 | MD, PhD @columbia 🌃

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

Beyond thrilled to have matched into the Research Track Psychiatry residency @CUAnschutz!!
Huge thanks to @psimslab @david_sulzer and so many others for an amazing 8 years in NYC...
I can't wait to be back home in CO and get to work @CU_Psychiatry! 🏔️🌄
#Match2023 #psychmatch

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@KVRamachandran5 @NatureNeuro Congrats Kapil! Awesome story and work. Do you have any insight into how neuroproteasome abundance and function differs across neurons? I eagerly await the other paper and I am glad that some of my graduate work was useful to that project

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@seanluomdphd @chrisaikenmd https://t.co/nPsOVksIuY

There at least is a rationale and biochemical theory, and some data to support that Li orotate is more effective than carbonate in the mouse models… see Fig 5 and the section titled ‘Lithium replacement therapy’

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@seanluomdphd @chrisaikenmd Didn’t the mouse paper claim that they had to supplement with lithium orotate instead of carbonate? Something about the sequestration of specific salts in plaques…

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@seanluomdphd @RecoveryDoctor I’ve had patients stop late due to intractable nausea despite liking the medication otherwise and really trying to persist through it. In a couple of other cases, it was not effective enough to keep them out of the hospital

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@chrisaikenmd I’m surprised to hear it’s apparently so hard to get approval? I have quite a few patients (mostly Medicaid) on them and haven’t gotten much push back on prior auth

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@RCarhartHarris Can subjects not bring expectation bias into their foray of microdosing, etc? Maybe I misused the term but was conceiving an “individual's expectations about an outcome influence perceptions of one's own or others’ behavior”. But yeah, also selection and recall bias

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@GuruAnaerobic @Bwhite4363 Of the two, Dante August certainly can, he is an 800m specialist and in fact I think he has run 46sec 400m. Paul Chelimo (the one looks smoother and more efficient) is a 5k & up runner and I very much doubt he can run 22 or 48, though I also doubt he has verified race times

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@ahmari_lab Terrible times… the MSTP T32 and F30 are gone as well, both grants that supported my training at Columbia. They can likely overcome the T32 to keep students supported, but I feel bad for students who will likely not be able to go through the F30 application process now

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@dr_alexharris Terrible news… hopefully Vagelos can stabilize things while legal challenges are mounted…

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@BadreNicolas This does not reflect the ideology or training environment of my residency at all

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@dr_alexharris Don’t forget professors are the enemy 😆

[National Conservatism @NatConTalk]

@JDVance1 at the National Conservatism Conference:

"The professors are the enemy."

#NatCon

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@BioJohn45 @RecoveryDoctor Yes, certainly. The extent of how much less efficacious, if so, is what we want to see. Time will tell

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@RecoveryDoctor No doubt, my guess is if they had a 3rd arm of haldol or zyprexa in the trials then cobenfy wouldn’t look so great. Cobenfy isn’t going to be on formulary on our inpatient units for a long time, so I don’t know anyone with any direct experience using it.

[AJHG @AJHGNews]

📣 New today!
📄Genome-wide prediction of dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorder-associated genes
🧑‍🤝‍🧑@RyanDhindsa @awzoghbi & colleagues
https://t.co/Q3d6mGBaAW

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@Roy_Lab_Thinks @JasonSynaptic His last tweet was “Tinkering with human embryos will certainly be worth the risk” which is simultaneously 😮 and 😂

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@RCarhartHarris Can go even further to species / genomic regression like in Altered States

https://t.co/MtQKEzUsDL

[Rai Benjamin @_Kingben_]

200 retweets and I’ll do the 200/400 double at worlds…. I’ll beat Noah and Vernon 😂🤝🏾… Grant also gotta see me in the 110 too.. I’ll take the stripes off his lil vest

[Ben Hobson @BenHobs3]

@curious_cynic @mbeisen Completely agree… signing up for grad school in bench science without any experience?? No pubs is fine. But admitting a bunch of successful athletes/artists/etc who have no idea what it’s like to work in a real basic science lab is asking for failure and many dropouts