Jacob S Aday, PhD
Research Investigator, Anesthesiology
Research Fellow, Internal Medicine
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Jacob S Aday, PhD
Research Investigator
  • About
  • Qualifications
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
  • About

    Jacob S. Aday, Ph.D. is a Research Investigator in the Department of Anesthesiology, with appointments in the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (CPFRC) as well as the Michigan Psychedelic Center (M-PsyC). He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in Psychology at Northern Michigan University, where he worked in Dr. Adam Prus’s Neuropsychopharmacology Lab and Dr. Joshua Carlson’s Cognitive Affective Behavior and Integrative Neuroscience (CABIN) Lab. During his doctoral training, Jake was mentored by Drs. Christopher Davoli and Emily Bloesch at Central Michigan University, where they established a productive program of research centered on the emerging field of ‘psychedelic science’. During this time, he was also recruited by Drug Science, the leading independent scientific body on drugs in the UK, to be an honorary research assistant and study under Professor David Nutt. Jake then joined the Translational Psychedelic Research Program (TrPR) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as a postdoctoral researcher in 2021. There, he was mentored by Dr. Joshua Woolley on how to design, implement, and interpret complex psychedelic clinical trials. As a Research Investigator in the Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Aday is interested in the cognitive and social effects of psychedelics, improving research methodology and safety with the drugs, and examining the potential applications of psychedelic therapy for chronic pain.

    Qualifications
    • PhD
      Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 2021
    • MS
      Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, 2017
    • BS
      Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, 2015
    Research Overview

    • Psychedelics
    • Social Cognition
    • Emotion
    • Chronic Pain

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Psychedelic Research as a Career Path: A Roundtable Discussion with Early Career Researchers in the Field
      Aday J, Mason NL, Wood BJ, Kramer HM, Ortiz CE, Vest MF, Sagrera C, Healy CJ. Psychedelic Medicine, 2024 Feb; DOI:10.1089/psymed.2023.0053
    • Journal Article
      Effects of Ayahuasca on Gratitude and Relationships with Nature: A Prospective, Naturalistic Study.
      Aday JS, Bloesch EK, Davis AK, Domoff SE, Scherr K, Woolley JD, Davoli CC. J Psychoactive Drugs, 2024 Feb 4; 1 - 10. DOI:10.1080/02791072.2024.2312980
      PMID: 38310541
    • Journal Article
      Increases in Aesthetic Experience Following Ayahuasca Use: A Prospective, Naturalistic Study
      Aday J, Bloesch EK, Davis AK, Domoff SE, Scherr K, Woolley JD, Davoli CC. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2024 DOI:10.1177/00221678241230609
    • Journal Article
      Psychedelic substitution: altered substance use patterns following psychedelic use in a global survey.
      Glynos NG, Aday JS, Kruger D, Boehnke KF, Lake S, Lucas P. Front Psychiatry, 2024 15: 1349565 DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1349565
      PMID: 38455520
    • Preprint
      Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: Where is the psychotherapy research?
      Aday J, Horton D, Fernandes-Osterhold G, O'Donovan A, Bradley E, Rosen R, Woolley J. PsyArXiv, DOI:10.31234/osf.io/s3yjd
    • Presentation
      Challenges in Trial Design for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies
      Aday J. 2023 Nov;
    • Journal Article
      Psychedelic Commercialization: A Wide-Spanning Overview of the Emerging Psychedelic Industry
      Aday JS, Barnett BS, Grossman D, Murnane KS, Nichols CD, Hendricks PS. Psychedelic Medicine, 2023 Sep 1; 1 (3): 150 - 165. DOI:10.1089/psymed.2023.0013
    • Presentation
      Psychedelic science: An overview of contemporary directions
      Aday J. 2023 Sep;