Manoj Doss

Dr. Manoj Doss is a cognitive neuropsychopharmacologist in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Charmaine & Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. He received a bachelor's from The University of Texas at Austin, a master's from University College London, post-baccalaureate training from University of California, Davis, a doctorate from University of Chicago, and postdoctoral training at the Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before returning to UT Austin. Dr. Doss is broadly interested in the acute and persisting effects of psychoactive drugs on cognition and brain function with focuses on hallucinogens and episodic memory. He utilizes complex cognitive paradigms, neuroimaging, and computational modeling to explore what makes 5-HT2A psychedelics unique compared to other classes of psychoactive drugs in terms of their basic effects and their therapeutic mechanisms. While he is optimistic that psychedelics will be useful tools in psychiatry and creative problem-solving, he remains cautious of exaggerated benefits and negligence to potential harms such as illusory insights.