On this week’s Opinionated Science, the team take a look at the growing potential of psychedelic medicine.
Hundreds of new clinical trials, exciting new synthetic psychedelics and a universal acceptance that current mental health treatments are not meeting patients’ needs have pushed the mind-altering potential of psychedelics into the medical mainstream.
In this episode, Technology Networks Senior Science Writer Ruairi J Mackenzie takes a deep dive into four leading psychedelic compounds: psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine and DMT.
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The Neuroscience of Psychedelic Drugs: Your Brain on Psilocybin With Frederick Streeter Barrett
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Episode 29: Puppies! And Optogenetic Sight Restoration
Episode 28: The Futuristic Lab
Episode 27:Cannabis Edibles: Getting the Munchies for Science
Episode 26: Organoids: How to grow your own brain
Episode 25: AirDNA and Reversing Hair Loss in Shaved Mice
Episode 24: Mayan Bones, Boozy Brains and Baboon Logic
Episode 23: Mind Palaces, Artificial Sight and Invading Squirrels
Episode 22: Microplastics Nano-sized Waste Causing Macro-sized Problem
Episode 21: The Roundup – Moon Phases, Anti-Cancer Elephants and Poop Infusions
Episode 20: How Data Integrity Can Stop You Getting Fined $500 Million
Episode 19: Next-Generation Sequencing Takes Over the World
Episode 18: The No-COVID Science Wrap-up of 2020
Episode 17: I Got COVID-19: Here's What Happened
Episode 16: The Metabolome: The Way to Personalized Healthcare?
Episode 15: COVID-19 and the Brain: Investigating the “Silent Wave”
Episode 14: Cancer Immunotherapy: Vaccines, Viruses and Nobel Prizes
Episode 13: Connecting the Brain: “Thought Tetris”, Brain Privacy and Neuralink
Episode 12: Green Labs: Sustainable Science and Exploding Microscopes
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