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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 and Neural Responses to Threat and Social Reward

Harriet Dewitt runs the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. She has a long history of giving people certain drugs in very specific dosages and then measuring their effects on the brain using different types of imaging, including FMRI. And one particular study that I'll highlight is entitled Effects of MDMA on Sociability and Neural Responses to Social Threat and Social Reward. So what this study looked at is how MDMA impacts people's perceptions of others' emotional expressions on their face.

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