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2024    Dr. Dölen featured on Radiolab podcast: The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

2024    Dr. Dölen named the Renee and Bob Parsons Endowed Chair   

  Dölen Lab receives funding from the Steven and Alex Cohen Foundation         

  Dölen Lab Moves to UC Berkeley!   Read more

2024    Dr. Dölen featured on The Grey Area Podcast

2023    Dr. Dölen  named one of the 2023 Future Perfect 50 by Vox 


2023     Publication of Psychedelics paper ( Nardou et al. Nature  2023 ) receives media coverage:  

The Psychedelic Mom  (Podcast)

Scientific AmericanNature   (News)

BBC

National Geographic  

NautilusLuminous : To The Best of Our Knowledge (Podcast)

Wall Street Journal

WebMD

The New Yorker

HAVE A NICE FUTURE (WIRED PODCAST)

WIRED MAGAZINE

Lucid News

Mind and Matter  (Podcast)

BBC

ESPN

High Times

Nature   (News)

ANI News

Haaretz

Folha de Sao Paulo

Inverse

The Independent

Spectrum News

Salon 


2023      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  The Tim Ferriss Show  (Podcast)  Interviewed by  Tim Ferriss.   

https://tim.blog/2023/04/19/gul-dolen/  


2023      Dölen Lab's work featured in   "I Feel Love: MDMA AND the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"                      by

Rachel Nuwer. 

2022      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Spectrum News  "In Deep Water with Gül Dölen".  Interviewed by Peter Hess.
2022
      New York Times  article about our  Octopus chierchiae  paper  (Grearson, et al.  Frontiers in Marine Science,  2021)
                   
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/science/octopus-model-mbl.html
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Psychoactive  (Podcast). Interviewed by Ethan Nadelmann. 
 
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-psychoactive-84544756/ 
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  The Microdose.  Interviewed by Jane C. Hu. 
 
https://themicrodose.substack.com/p/5-questions-for-gul-dolen?utm_source=url&s=r 
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Mind & Matter  (Podcast). Interviewed by Nick Jikomes. 
 
https://mindandmatter.substack.com/p/early-access-gul-dolen-social-cognition?s=r 
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Knowable Magazine (From Annual Reviews).  Interviewed by Bob Holmes. 
 
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2022/oxytocins-effects-arent-just-about-love 
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  HCPLive  (Podcast). Interviewed by Steve Lavine.   
 
https://www.hcplive.com/view/rethinking-psychiatry-steve-levine 
2022     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  WebMD . Interviewed by Paul Frysh. 
  How Do Psychedelic Treatments Work? 
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/story/how-do-psychedelic-treatments-work 
2021
     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Chacruna . Interviewed by Reilly Capps. 
  How MDMA, Octopuses, and Gül Dölen Reopen Minds   
https://chacruna.net/how-mdma-octopuses-and-gul-dolen-reopen-minds/ 
2021      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Gaia News .   Interviewed by Natasha Gutshtein. 
https://www.gaia.com/share/cl11a300y00040h8q0m362nez?language[]=en&utm_source=share
 
2021     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  The New York Times . Interviewed by Rachel Newer. 
  MDMA reaches next step toward approval for treatment 
https://nyti.ms/3b0AOVr  
2021     Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Wall Street Journal.  Interviewed by Laura Cooper. 
  Could group therapy get a boost from psychedelics? 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/could-group-therapy-get-a-boost-from-psychedelics-11615395614?page=1 
2021      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Cannabis Science Today  (Podcast). Interviewed by Emily Fata.   
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/21-octopuses-mdma-social-reward-learning-dr-gul-dölen/id1483527353?i=1000507051483  
2021      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  MIND Foundation . Interviewed by Saga Briggs. 
 
 https://mind-foundation.org/mdma-therapy-social/ 
 
2020      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Spectrum News.  Interviewed by Peter Hess. 
  Parallel processing Oxytocin ASD 
https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-linked-gene-exerts-varied-effects-on-oxytocin-circuits-in-mice/
 
2020      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Spectrum News.  Interviewed by Sarah DeWeerdt.   
Octopus as a model for ASD. 
https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/getting-eight-arms-around-autism/
 
2020      Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Scientific American . Interviewed by Rachel Newer.   
Octopus as a new model organism. 
https://bit.ly/3urZNsN
 
2020       Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Stanford  (Podcast). Interviewed by Cat Fergesen
 
https://soundcloud.com/hopespodcast/episode-8-fried-eggs-psychedelics-cannabis-and-hd 
2020      
Dr. Dölen interviewed for  Enhanced Therapy  Institute
   
"MDMA, Oxytocin, and Healing Broken Bonds" - Enhanced Therapy Podcast #3   
2020    
  Media coverage for Eastman/Genevieve and Alejandra's parallel processing/Autism paper.
   

Science for the non Scientist YouTube Channel
   
April, 2019    Media coverage for Romain's MDMA/Critical period paper: 

Gizmodo 

Newsweek  

Nature Podcast

The Independent   

The Wall Street Journal 

Jan, 2019       Interviewed for  Gizmodo   Dream Experiment  series :     How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience


Sept, 2018    Publication of octopus paper receives extensive media coverage (sample subset below): 

Gizmodo   

CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Channel)  

ABC-Australia

Inverse

New Scientist

VicePopular

Science

Popular Mechanics

El Pais

The Atlantic

Forbes

Newsweek

Bloomberg News (Podcast)

Scientific American  

Scientific American (Podcast)

Smithsonian

Washington Post

The Guardian

Rolling Stone

National Geographic

New York Times

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)

NPR (National Public Radio)


May, 2017    Dr. Dölen receives Klingenstein-Simons Award                                                         
May, 2017    Marieme Ndiaye receives the National Fragile X Foundation (NFXF) summer student fellowship Award                                                     
April 2015   Dr. Dölen receives Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award                                                         
February 2015    Dr. Dölen receives Searle Scholars Program Award                                                                                             
November 2014    Dr. Dölen receives Society for Social Neuroscience Early Career Award                                                            
 September 2014    Dr. Dölen speaks at Project Bridge: Science Cafe at Red Emma's                                                                      
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