Re:Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
by dns_snek on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:26PM
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MDMA (or psilocybin) assisted psychotherapy to be specific. I don't think just taking these drugs has been shown to be an effective treatment :)
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Re:Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
by SequoiaHope on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:57PM
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Yes I was referring to MDMA assisted psychotherapy, which I am a huge proponent of. However I’ve found these materials to be quite effecting at healing when taken conscientiously outside of a traditional assisted therapy session. Of course there probably haven’t been a lot of studies on this because formal therapy studies are probably easier to get approved, so I wouldn’t take the absence of evidence as evidence of absence.