UT Brainstorms

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Meet the Speaker: Dr. Manoj Doss, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Dr. Doss studies the basic neurocognitive mechanisms of psychoactive drugs, with a focus on the impact of psychedelics on different learning and memory processes in humans. He is also interested in the efficacy of psychedelic therapy in depression and posttraumatic stress disorder and how psychedelic therapy could be optimized via the incorporation of cognitive-behavioral manipulations that modulate different learning processes.

Meet the Panelist: Dr. Greg Fonzo, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Charmaine & Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy in the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist in UT Medicine’s Trauma Recovery and Research Center. He specializes in assessment and evidence-based psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorders. Dr. Fonzo’s research focuses broadly on utilizing neuroscience tools to understand mechanisms of affective disorder psychopathology and treatment and leveraging this understanding to improve clinical care and patient outcomes.

Meet the Panelist: Raquel Kosted is a doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at UT Austin, where she is advised by Dr. Fonzo. She graduated from UT Austin in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. After graduation, she worked as a Research Associate at Dell Medical School, where she studied the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying heightened risk for suicide and alcohol misuse in individuals with bipolar disorder. Now as a graduate student, Raquel is interested in studying the neurobiological mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She is passionate about mental health and aims to conduct research that informs the development and optimization of evidence-based treatments for psychiatric disorders.