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The Role of MDMA in PTSD
MDMA is an empathogen. Empathogen means it makes you feel empathetic. It's not a psychedelic, even though they are referring to it within a episode on psychedelic. But what he's saying about MDMA suppressing the activity in the amygdala, which is this sort of acolyke structure in the middle of your brain that controls fear responses is true. And it may be that that allows people who have suffered very traumatic events for the first time to sort of look back on it. So yeah, there's some validity there, but don't get too carried away.
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