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President Trump’s recent executive order directing federal agencies to accelerate the development and review of psychedelic therapies has generated widespread interest and renewed optimism about expanding treatment options for serious mental health conditions. Authors I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Amy McGuire argue that while the executive order represents an important federal commitment to advancing psychedelic medicine, many of its provisions rely on authorities the federal government already possesses. As a result, the practical impact may be more modest than most advocates expect.
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Mind-reading neurotech, algorithmic manipulation, and drug relapse: 6 Questions with Javier Mesa
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Javier R. Mesa, a public defender turned behavioral neuroscientist whose work sits at the intersection of law and neuroscience.
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Department of Justice Misuses Research by Persons with Disabilities to Justify Their Segregation
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a memo that advances a vanishingly narrow reading of states’ longstanding legal duty to serve persons with disabilities in community-based settings, rather than in segregated institutions.
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AI Can Invent Drugs Faster. It Still Has to Prove They Work.
Recently, Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence model with a tantalizing promise: tools that could help researchers design drugs 10 times faster than current methods.
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Hospitals Can Save the Environment and Your Health — Or At Least Not Make Them Worse
The provision of healthcare is responsible for roughly 8.5 percent of total carbon emissions in the United States. In turn, carbon emissions cause climate change and harm human health.
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Fireside Chat
I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
December 2023
This interview focuses on Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
