Today's episode features Dr. Jill Wecht from the Bronx VA and Devon Colbert, a retired firefighter and Navy Veteran who lives with a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) and is an advocate for and participant in SCI research. A while back, Devon proposed the idea for a clinical trial using psilocybin to Dr. Wecht and her colleague Dr. Noam Harel at the Bronx VA. When we heard that they were moving forward with what we believe to be the first psilocybin trial in spinal cord injury (a safety trial), we reached out to...

“Why is U2FP always asking for money?” I often imagine this silent response from our followers whenever we send out any sort of donation appeal. Maybe you feel this way; maybe you don’t notice; or maybe you don’t care. But I feel it is our responsibility to you, our supporters, to be as transparent as possible about the context of our financial situation. U2FP has always operated on a shoestring budget while attempting to accomplish audacious goals (several of our founders came very close to mortgaging their homes to fund the first symposium). That's because...

Two intriguing SCI research headlines appeared recently. One seemingly set a new experimental bar for the clinical potential of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI); the other is a sign that BCI is becoming an internationally competitive and bankable business, starting in China. The first headline features Keith Thomas, now 48, who broke his neck in a diving accident at C4 and C5 six years ago. At that time he could not...