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34. Psilocybin vs Antidepressants with Dr Robin Carhart-Harris

The Drug Science Podcast

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The Benefits of MDMA for Brain Imaging Research

The quest was to do some brain imaging work with classic psychedelics. How do psychedelics work in the brain? Why do you trip? And so we use various different brain imaging modalities beginning with fMRI and two different flavors of fMRI, one looking at blood flow,. arterial spin labeling, and then one looking at functional connectivity. So asking that big question, what changes in your brain when you're tripping on a psychedelic, say, to speak?

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