Psychedelics, Depression, and the Brain: A Breakthrough Framework for Mental Health

Coming up on this episode of the Doctor Hyman Show. It seems like a quantum jump, both the metabolic psychiatry and psychedelic psychiatry. Function. The idea is that we've become injured by life, adversity, trauma, get reinforced in a particular way, perhaps for defensive reasons, but I think there's something to it. I don't think it's all of it, but I do think it's a shake up, a recalibration of the parameters, if you will. Robin Carhart Harris. is a neuroscientist. And leading researcher in psychedelic therapy, known for his groundbreaking studies on psilocybin and mental health. What we're finding with these compounds is one, two, three sessions seems to do the trick. My first patient had been on I don't know how many antidepressants and this got her well and she's still well. So it can turn things around. pathways for people to explore around getting relief from really intractable problems that create so much human suffering.

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