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Ep. 151: Neuroscience, Memory and Psychedelics (feat. Manoj Doss PhD)

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The Role of Psychedelics in Anxiety

Exposure therapy is slowly showing people stimuli that, you know, brings up trauma. Maybe what we should be doing is doing exposure therapy first without psychedelics and then add the drugs on top of it. They enhance mental imagery so that they're going to really expose people to something. And one thing that they can show with them is that you can enhance the extinction of a memory. So for example, if you have fear still exists after taking LSD, you can recover more easily than if you don't take any at all.

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