Elias Dakwar
Biography
Board-certified addiction and general psychiatrist who has spent over a decade researching novel treatments for substance use disorders. He is a principal investigator on several NIH-funded grants evaluating ketamine combined with behavioral therapies for treating cocaine, opioid, and alcohol use disorders.
Sample Works
- The Captive Imagination: Addiction, Reality, and Our Search for Meaning (2024) Book
- A Single Ketamine Infusion Combined With Mindfulness-Based Behavioral Modification to Treat Cocaine Dependence: A Randomized Clinical Trial (2019) Paper
- Cocaine self-administration disrupted by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine: a randomized, crossover trial (2017) Paper
- A Single Ketamine Infusion Combined With Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Midazolam-Controlled Pilot Trial (2020) Paper
Roundtable Appearances
February 11, 2023 · ▶ Video
The Body and Psychosis
The roundtable explored how "4E Cognition" frames thought and behavior as "embodied, embedded, enactive & extended," drawing on philosophers like Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger. It...
Elias Dakwar, George Denfield, MD, Vittorio Gallese, Siri Hustvedt, Gail Weiss
October 16, 2022 · ▶ Video
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?
The panel explored the concept that "we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along." The discussion centered on the notion that the Universe functions as "one giant...
Emily Adlam, David Chalmers, Elias Dakwar, Christopher Fuchs, Sylvester James Gates
March 12, 2022 · ▶ Video
Psychedelics
The roundtable explores how psychedelics -- substances that "manifest the mind" -- alter cognition, perception, emotion, and behavior. The discussion covers historical use in...
Patricia Dailey, Elias Dakwar, Nese Devenot, Alex Kwan, Stephen Ross