Saga Briggs
@SagaMilena
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Journalist and author at @SynergeticPress (How to Change Your Body, Sept 2023). Former editor for @mind_europe. Interoceptive connection enthusiast. She/her.
San Francisco, California
Joined May 2012
An honor to write on this topic for @psyche_the_mag. Hoping to spark more interest in the nuances of internal experience. Thanks to @Psych_Writer for thoughtful editing. How to trust your body to boost mental and emotional health –
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Your heart, lungs, abdomen and gut are trying to tell you something. Learning to tune in can significantly boost your health
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Awesome piece. For an anaesthesiologist, intuition stands between life and death – https://t.co/IhAw5suhYp via @aeonmag
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For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t
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The quest for a “communication device” that tells cells to regenerate the body
bigthink.com
Michael Levin on the future of regenerative medicine — and the quest to build a "communication device" that directs cell behavior.
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Okay this is getting a little spooky
Tune In, Turn On... and Wake Up! New preprint on psychedelic reversal of anesthesia from Emma Huels, Nick Kolbman, Dinesh Pal and other members of the UM Center for Consciousness Science. https://t.co/N6VeZLWQiR
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Anesthesia induced dreams may help ease anxiety and trauma. Dr. Harrison Chow (@drpuppychow) and Boris D. Heifets (@TheBorisLab) are discovering parallels between the potential of psychedelic therapy and anesthesia dreams.
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Great to finally get our research off the ground, funded, ready for clinically-rigorous testing and no longer accused of “pseudo-science”. Fantastic writing by Saga Briggs!
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Anesthesia-induced dreams were once considered random side effects. Now, researchers are studying them for their therapeutic potential.
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Inside the emerging world of anesthesia "dream therapy"
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Anesthesia-induced dreams were once considered random side effects. Now, researchers are studying them for their therapeutic potential.
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How the “defiance domino effect” can improve your life and transform society
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Organizational psychologist Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow us to live more authentic lives.
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Ride along on a road trip suffused with LSD, petty theft and true love – https://t.co/SswsBdgnCR via @psyche_the_mag
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Buckle up for a road trip across the US that stops at a Grateful Dead concert, detours via a drug deal and ends at true love
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The pupil of the eye opens a remarkable window into the mind – https://t.co/v8P4pO9FIO via @psyche_the_mag
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From mental effort to the content of a person’s imagination, these tiny apertures reveal far more than you might realise
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Cozy Up with Our Holiday Reading List https://t.co/3IXGRG6NVB via @synergeticpress
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Inside the battle for FDA approval of MDMA therapy
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MAPS founder Rick Doblin speaks to Big Think about the FDA’s rejection of MDMA therapy and the future of psychedelic treatments.
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My first attempt at putting a talk up directly here (I usually just add links to the video on our channel https://t.co/qUO6RUJv0S). Here goes: this was a ~55 minute presentation and I had been asked to talk about the "Multiscale Human" (for https://t.co/TZP09aTOFj). I cover the
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If this is the last thing I share on this channel, I'm okay with that. https://t.co/CQIpwdDaIy
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A psilocybin service center in Southern Oregon is trying to increase access with group-psychedelic experiences — like a magic mushroom concert.
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My Online First chapter with Sylvie Droit-Volet in an upcoming @SpringerNature book edited with Irina Strigo and Alan Simmons on "The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time: Exploring Interoception through the Contributions of A.D. (Bud) Craig"
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In accordance with Bud (A.D.) Craig’s theories, we maintain that ascending physiological signals in their temporal dynamics are a necessary prerequisite for human time judgments. Functional neuroim...
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Change starts with the body: Interoceptive appreciation mediates the effect of mindfulness training on behavior change https://t.co/ztLMJw2gV5
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What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: https://t.co/wepZGVCMXl
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I guarantee the world is a slightly better place now. https://t.co/YQ8aVmIc9x
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"It is not always best simply to go back to what we had before. Health is more complicated than that." Beautiful essay. https://t.co/lBEcxjP41Y via @aeonmag
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Medicine aims to return bodies to the state they were in before illness. But there’s a better way of thinking about health
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In the first case, each bracketed phrase has a positive value, leading to a false statement. The LLM was solving a different math problem, where "all" and "not" cancel each other out, leaving a true statement. (5/5)
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