Boris D Heifets

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@TheBorisLab

Anesthesiologist, neuroscientist, amateur psychiatrist. I know where the most powerful psychotropic drugs in the hospital are.

Stanford, CA heifetslab.stanford.edu Joined November 2018

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Boris D Heifets @TheBorisLab Aug 21

Applications are open! We have an *incredible* lineup of speakers at the 2027 GRC/GRS on Consciousness, Anesthesia and Evolutionary Biology - January 17-22, 2027 SoCal. Keynotes by Christof Koch, @doristsao (GRC) and @mattlark (GRS). see link below for the prelim program -

Boris D Heifets @TheBorisLab Oct 19

Seeing the excitement this has stirred up... the inimitable @doristsao will be delivering a keynote address at the 2027 GRC on Consciousness, Anesthesia & Evolutionary biology in January! *link below*. Applications closing soon- come see the greats debate!

Doris Tsao Verified account @doristsao Oct 17

1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.648… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
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Boris D Heifets @TheBorisLab Oct 9

Stanford’s neuroanesthesia team is hiring! Great opportunity for an anesthesiologist- we do all kinds of interesting cases, teach residents & students and have ongoing research collabs across the university careers.asahq.org/jobs/view/neur…

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Boris D Heifets @TheBorisLab Oct 8

Great opportunity for grad students, postdocs and early stage faculty to get your work in front of a great group of scientific peers - applications are closing soon!

Cara Weisman @WeismanCara Oct 7

The deadline to be considered for a talk at the next iteration of the Gordon Research Seminar in Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Evolutionary Biology is coming up fast -- Sunday, October 11! The accompanying GRC has a fantastic lineup. Check it out and apply here: grc.org/consciousness-…

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Boris D Heifets @TheBorisLab Oct 6

Is AI conscious? I have no idea. But I'm excited to spend a week talking about problems in consciousness, disorders of consciousness, dreaming, delirium, perception that may actually be experimentally tractable 😅

Apply now - space is limited! Links below