Sahib Khalsa

Just released—a brand new special issue focused entirely on interoception. More to follow, but beyond my usual excitement is the fact that this will be kickstarting 2021!!! cell.com/trends/neurosc…

If you can't make the UCLA Brain Health Summit in person, the meeting will be live-streamed on Youtube here: teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/even… (click on the hyperlink in the top right corner of the program).

Looking forward to kicking off tomorrow's UCLA Brain Health Summit. To get things ready, Indu Subramanian and I recorded this podcast hosted by Genein Letford: youtube.com/watch?v=fCddhv…

What are the new and emerging treatments for anxiety disorders? We summarize these in a new review: bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Remarkable study from Christoph Thaiss and colleagues demonstrating a lifespan impact of a microbiome-vagal-CNS pathway dysfunction of gut interoception nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our paper on potential risks and conceptual pitfalls of GLP-1 therapies is cited in the article and explores these issues in more depth: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38320760/

In such cases, conceptualizing treatment as an allostatic reset rather than an indefinite push toward maximal weight reduction may be more clinically appropriate.

Honored to see our work cited in today’s New York Times in coverage of emerging data on next-generation GLP-1–based therapies. What does it all mean? Some brief thoughts below.. nytimes.com/2026/02/18/wel…

📍Register here (event dates: March 20-21, 2026): teams.semel.ucla.edu/longevity/even… We hope to see you there.

If you are interested in the future of neuroscience, public health, mental health, aging, prevention, or policy, I encourage you to learn more and join this conversation. Background reading on how Brain Health shapes resilience and lifespan trajectories: nature.com/articles/s4138…

How do we build and sustain healthy brains across the lifespan? For decades, neuroscience has advanced through powerful reductionist approaches, identifying molecular pathways, neural circuits, and disease mechanisms. These discoveries have transformed medicine.