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Specially trained psychiatrists and psychologists are now administering hallucinogens and other potent psychotropic agents (psilocybin, ketamine, ecstasy) as mental health remedies. Administering limited doses (one to three) of psychedelics interspersed with multiple sessions of talk therapy over many weeks has become the modern equivalent of shama

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

These data gave us an important clue to how this class of drugs (formally known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs) might work. Before taking Prozac these patients’ emotions controlled their reactions. I think of a Dutch patient, for example (not in the Prozac study) who came to see me for treatment for a childhood rape and who wa

When the alarm bell of the emotional brain keeps signaling that you are in danger, no amount of insight will silence it.

Harvard Medical School was and is at the forefront of the neuroscience revolution,