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

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The Safety and Potential Neurotoxicity of MDMA

The serotonin increases combined with the dopamine increases caused by MDMA lead to most of the understood effects. Harriet Dewitt's laboratory has looked at how variations in oxytocin receptor genes vary between people. Some people have an allele that makes oxytocin work differently and actually less effectively in activating certain factors.

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