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Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams | Boris Heifets (part 1)
Psychedelics are a hot topic in psychiatry today. They’re producing dramatic reversals for patients with severe depression, PTSD, and other mental health conditions. But scientists still have fundamental questions about why these drugs are so effective.
For example, is the "trip" even necessary? Some think it is not and are working to design drugs with similar brain chemistry but no psychoactive effects — “Taking the trip out of the drug.”
Others suspect that many of the benefits of psychedelics can be attributed to hype and expectation: People expect to get better, so they do.
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