Manoj Doss, Ph.D.

Manoj Doss, Ph.D., studies the basic neurocognitive mechanisms of psychoactive drugs, with a particular 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. Additionally, Doss is interested in other forms of neuromodulation such as transcranial focus ultrasound, both as a tool to understand how the brain supports cognition and for psychiatric treatment.

Doss received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at Austin and earned a master’s degree from University College London. He also received postbaccalaureate training from The University of California, Davis, and completed a doctorate from the University of Chicago and postdoctoral training at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Doss has received funding from the Center for MINDS, the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation and the Heffter Research Institute to study the acute effects of psilocybin on distinct forms of learning and memory.