David Nutt

London

Podcast Host at The Drug Science Podcast

Chair of @Drug_Science (formerly ISCD), Edmond J Safra Prof of Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London. Book available https://t.co/Gep6YPRzF6

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Articles

Kotlikoff encourages grads to hold fast to community, values

2 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

At a time when the U.S. seems bitterly divided, President Michael I. Kotlikoff offered graduates at Commencement, held May 24 at Schoellkopf Field, some historical perspective – and a reason to be proud. “Democracies aren’t intended to be places where everyone always agrees,” he said.
Happy together: Peroxide binds incompatible polymers for recycling

2 weeks ago | phys.org | David Nutt |Lisa Lock |Robert Egan

Polyethylene and polypropylene account for two-thirds of the world's plastics. But the polymers' popularity has an equally large downside. Because they have similar densities and physical properties, the polymers are difficult—and expensive—to separate when mechanically recycled together. What results is a weak, degraded material that really isn't good for anything.
Federal Stop-Work Order Puts Pause on Research to Help Navy Divers

2 weeks ago | maritime-executive.com | David Nutt

Everybody needs a buddy – especially Navy divers. Working underwater is physically taxing, visibility is low, and divers can easily become exhausted or suffer from insufficient oxygen or nitrogen narcosis, resulting in cognitive impairment. The problem with relying on a partner who can come to your rescue, however, is that they are vulnerable to the same conditions.
Research at risk: Keeping Navy divers safe with robot partners

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

Credit: Noël Heaney/Cornell University Everybody needs a buddy – especially Navy divers. Working underwater is physically taxing, visibility is low, and divers can easily become exhausted or suffer from insufficient oxygen or nitrogen narcosis, resulting in cognitive impairment. The problem with relying on a partner who can come to your rescue, however, is that they are vulnerable to the same conditions.
Tool predicts impact of wildfire smoke on solar power generation

1 month ago | techxplore.com | David Nutt

From habitats to property to livelihoods, wildfires destroy everything in their path. But there is another, less-acknowledged, casualty: sunlight and the electrical grid that depends on it. Smoke from wildfires can cover large swaths of land, including solar farms, and significantly reduces power production from photovoltaic (PV) panels.
Poet Ishion Hutchinson tilts into expansive essay writing

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

In the pantheon of literary crimes – unoriginality, a tin ear, a heavy hand – Ishion Hutchinson admits to one of the most pardonable: “I write prose as a poet.”And for good reason. Hutchinson, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, has published three collections of poetry, including “House of Lords and Commons,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2017.
Analysis reveals signs of life in ‘zombie’ volcano

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

“Night of the Living Uturuncu” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But this dormant volcano in the southwest corner of Boliva has more in common with the walking dead than one might think. Cornell researchers detected signs of life in the “zombie” volcano, despite it’s being ostensibly inactive for more than 250,000 years, by periodically pinging the region with satellite radar two decades ago.
Dissociable effects of psilocybin and escitalopram for depression on processing of musical surprises - Molecular Psychiatry

1 month ago | nature.com | Rebecca Harding |Talma Hendler |David Erritzoe |David Nutt

AbstractPsilocybin therapy (PT) is emerging as an effective intervention for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), offering comparable efficacy to conventional treatments like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Music, an emotionally evocative stimulus, provides a valuable tool to explore changes in hedonic and predictive processing mechanisms via expectancy violations, or ‘surprises’.
Love and the Athenian Mercury: 1600s advice column still resonates

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

As an avid reader of personal advice columns, historian Mary Beth Norton found the perfect confluence of interests in the Athenian Mercury, a London periodical published from 1691-97. Each one-page, two-sided broadsheet included questions from anonymous readers and responses from the publisher and his two brothers-in-law – and so the world’s first personal advice column was born.
Students help city of Ithaca earn LEED Gold certification

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | David Nutt

When the city of Ithaca received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Cities certification from the U.S. Green Building Council in March, one group of constituents was particularly gratified: the Cornell student team that helped the city earn the distinction.