Tobias Buchborn

Tobias Buchborn is an honorary research fellow at Imperial College London and studies the cortical embedding of psychedelic drug action via optogenetics (using light to control neurons).

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Tobias Buchborn graduated in Psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany. In his diploma thesis, he investigated the antidepressant-like properties of repeated LSD administration in an animal model of depression.

Tobias ran his PhD project in Neuroscience at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology Magdeburg, where his research addressed the pharmacodynamics of repeated administration of psychedelics.

In 2016, Tobias was awarded an individual Marie Curie Research Fellowship (MSCA) and started to work in the Laboratory for Neuronal Circuit Dynamics (LNCD) at Imperial College London. Ever since he applies methods of optogenetic electrophysiology to study the cortical embedding of psychedelic drug action.

Media

• Discussing Tolerance With Dr. Tobias Buchborn (ARPA, February 2020)
• Tobias Buchborn – Using optogenetics to shine a light on the mammalian “psychedelic signature move” (Breaking Convention, 2019)
• Why DMT works all the time and LSD won’t – Tobias Buchborn (ICPR, 2016)