Your Memory on Drugs with Manoj Doss, PhD

Your Memory on Drugs with Manoj Doss, PhD

From Furthure by Haley Maria Dourron

September 21, 2025 · 1h 42m · Season 2 · Episode 2

About this episode

The episode explores how psychedelics and other drugs impact memory, featuring guest Manoj Doss, PhD.

Manoj Doss, PhD, has been known as a force of skepticism in psychedelic science and a critic of psychedelic neuroimaging. But he is also an expert on one often overlooked—but potentially very important—aspect of how psychedelics and other drugs impact people: how they affect memory. We also learn how Manoj became interested in memory research through a rollerblading mishap. We talk about how psychedelics might increase our sense of familiarity, how this might play a role in people developing odd beliefs, but also how it could be part of their therapeutic mechanism. How might drugs create a sense of “downloads” from the universe, perhaps due to changes in memory processing? We also explore how other drugs impact various memory systems. For example, we discuss a common non-psychedelic substance that can help you remember what you recently learned better—maybe you can guess what this mysterious drug is. We also hear more about directions in psychedelic science that Manoj is more optimistic about. Little announcement: Book Club Furthure is starting an online book club! The book club will meet every other month over Zoom. I realized I was basically going through withdrawals from not…

People in this episode

Host: Haley Maria Dourron

Guest: Manoj Doss, PhD

Topics covered

  • memory
  • psychedelics
  • drug effects
  • neuroimaging
  • therapeutic mechanisms
  • book club

Keywords

  • memory research
  • psychedelic science
  • drug effects
  • neuroimaging
  • therapeutic mechanisms

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