
PTSF59 – Psychedelics and Bipolar, with Benjamin Mudge
Psychedelics Today
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The Role of Psychedelics in Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a continuum. Everything to do with bipolar disorder is a spectrum. And by poor type one were excluded from the MDMA trial, but by polymer type two were included. When they were included, none of them went manic. So, yeah. There's some other trials that happened in Toronto with ketamine for mainly for major depression, but they decided to include some bipolar people as well. Again, kind of by accident, but it worked for them, got rid of the depression and did not create a manic episode. Because you can doctors and psychiatrists can give ketamine to patients because it's a licensed drug,. It's already FDA approved, they're doing it, and it
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