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The Science of MDMA & Its Therapeutic Uses: Benefits & Risks

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The Effects of MDMA on the Brain

In large part your brain is in this default mode network. And you're thinking about yourself. It has a lot to do with our self referencing. We can get a sense of which brain areas are more or less active by putting somebody into an FMRI machine and seeing how the activation of different brain networks changes. So-called neuroplasticity effects. What changed in a permanent or pervasive way? Okay, so that's one basic paradigm for exploring the effects of drugs like MDMA on the brain.

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