Dr. Chloe West

Neuroscience PhD from Georgia State University. New essays on the brain and belief every Sunday

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

Psychedelics that don’t make you trip but induce plasticity? Soften the clay and you get a mind more ready to change but nothing to change it. #psychedelic #neuroscience #mentalhealth #healingjourney

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

A little morning mediation to increase the entropy in my brain and experience an expanded state of consciousness. #meditationforbeginners #alteredstates #psychedelic #consciousness #neuroscience

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

Religious trauma is so much more common and more complex than people think #deconstruction #religioustrauma #exvangelical #psychedelic #christianity

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

Psychedelics increase entropy in the brain, but what does this actually mean? #neuroscience #psychedelic #psychedelicscience #entropy #consciousness

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

What if there’s a mechanism that could explain what seems supernatural? Here I dive into predictive processing, the neuroscience that might explain the “magic” of the Sng’oi tribe in Malaysia. #neuroscience #psychedelic #consciousness #philosophy #supernatural

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

I became a neuroscientist looking for proof of God. Six years and a PhD later, I couldn't find it. In my essay I explain what science can and can't tell us about consciousness and the mystical experience. #Neuroscience #Consciousness #ScienceAndReligion #psychedelic #spirituality

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@frameworkguru @ManojDoss @AutismOnAcid

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

I’m a Dr!!! I’m so extremely grateful for my incredible mentors @HammJordan and @neilyvanneily and to have been part of such an amazing lab. I will miss working alongside everyone dearly. @anna_3anana @oigeorgia @jordanmross @neuroConnG

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Dr. Chloe West Jacobs successfully defended her dissertation! Chloe (Co-advised with @neilyvanneily) had an ambitious vision when she joined my lab in 2021, and she made it happen (see our last pre-print)! Congrats @chloelilywest!

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Dr. Chloe West Jacobs successfully defended her dissertation! Chloe (Co-advised with @neilyvanneily) had an ambitious vision when she joined my lab in 2021, and she made it happen (see our last pre-print)! Congrats @chloelilywest!

[Johannes Ortloff @JohannesOrtloff]

@ndosenbach @realJoshSiegel @Nature @DosenbachLab @RCarhartHarris @DrDamienFair @gordonneuro @Subha__S H/t Paul Noth

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@RCarhartHarris See our pre-print for a hypothesized timescale of psychedelics impact on top-down vs bottom-up processing in visual system from our human EEG and mouse Dual LFP experiments. https://t.co/b5U0i1QFey
@oigeorgia @HammJordan @anna_3anana

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@B_Hutchy @singletonion Man I wish I would’ve known about this paper earlier. Just submitted my dissertation on psychs, sensory context processing, & mystical experiences! Once I get through my defense I want to sit down & really read it. From just skimming I can tell it’s going to be very insightful!

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@tommaso_barba @neurodelia @OPEN_fndn Is this presentation available online somewhere?

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@gnomad_ Do you happen to have a copy of the full-text?

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

A lasting impact of serotonergic psychedelics on visual processing and behavior https://t.co/2A70NNUev9 #biorxiv_neursci

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

This group of findings is consistent with predictive processing hypotheses of psychedelic action, such as the ReBUS model, but suggest a slightly different structure for acute vs sustained changes in cortical dynamics. 5/5 with @chloelilywest @oigeorgia @anna_3anana

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

ReBUS suggests psychedelics shift the balance from top-down to bottom- up sensory processing during the trip, but what about after? Check out our pre-print to find out! Thank you to my amazing co-author @oigeorgia, PIs @HammJordan and @neilyvanneily and lab mates!

[Jordan Hamm @HammJordan]

Excited to share our new preprint! 1/5
In humans and mice, we studied the impacts of psychedelics in the days/weeks after a trip. What we found amounts to a sort of stop-&-smell-the-roses effect. A neural basis for the afterglow. https://t.co/XlfntgFCHx

[Dr. Chloe West @drchloewest]

@drdluke Very interesting findings! I’m curious to hear your thoughts on 5-MeO-DMT “white-out” experiences. With little to no memory of the trip itself there can still be therapeutically beneficial outcomes. I wonder what the effects on psychological flexibility are in these instances.

[David Luke @drdluke]

Interesting preprint that suggests that the memory of a psychedelic experience is related to changes in wellbeing, and hence that the recall of the subjective experience, and therefore the subjective experience itself is possibly/likely important
https://t.co/RfiLhmm521