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

Huberman Lab

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The Effects of MDMA on Sociability

In humans that take oxytocin by nasal spray, you can see big increases in oxytocin. That's not surprising. Gets across the blood-brain barrier. Oxytocin goes up. And levels of sociability do not increase. So what this points to is a situation where MDMA is increasing dopamine to increase motivation and to reward something,. Well, what gets rewarded is the serotonin activation of particular brain networks associated with sociability.

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