Dr. Tanya Sippy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone. She’s also Principal Investigator at the Sippy Lab and Associate Director of the Psychedelic Medicine Research Training Program. Her research explores the neural mechanisms that underlie how sensory stimuli become associated with goal-directed behavior.

 Topics:

• How learning changes sensory representation (with implications for understanding addiction, etc.)
• Recent research on the functions of dopamine and serotonin
• Hype vs reality of psychedelics
• Regulation of ketamine clinics

 More information: https://www.sippylab.com/

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