Rael Cahn, MD, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences (Clinician Educator)
Keck School of Medicine
Email: rael.cahn@usc.edu
Rael Cahn, MD, PhD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry with the USC Department of Psychiatry and directs the USC Center for Mindfulness Science as well as his lab at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute. Broadly, his research is focused on the efficacy as well as the brain and body correlates of meditation, mindfulness, and psychedelic-assisted therapies for personal development, depression, anxiety, PTSD and substance use disorders. One aspect of such interventions is the possibility of incorporating powerful healing music, especially for the application of psychedelic assisted therapy. One specific focus of his current meditation research regards the neural and clinical correlates to the transformation of self-experience. Dr. Cahn is also studying the epigenetic basis to MDMA Assisted therapy for PTSD, the psychophysiological signatures of depression and suicidality, and a new study evaluating the clinical efficacy of a novel psilocybin-assisted meditation training program. He has a long-term interest in mind-body medicine and integrative psychiatry with a focus on developing and investigating psychedelic-assisted and meditation training programs for both personal development and psychiatric disorders including depression, PTSD, anxiety, substance use disorders.
