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Apr 2024
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102. MDMA and the Octopus with Dr Gül Dö...

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In this episode, Prof Neill and Dr Thurgur meet with Dr Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist known for studying social behaviour and psychedelic drugs. Together, they explore the role of critical periods in trauma and mental health; following the potential of Psychedelics in reopening critical periods which were previously thought to be closed, they debate whether a critical period closing is ever truly permanent.

Critical period

Sensitive period

Lorenz 1935

MDMA

cocaine

Oxytocin

Ibogaine

psilocybin

Theory of mind

Albert Hofmann

Schizophrenia

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