Podcast HackCan Psychedelics Improve Mental Health?By The Joy of Why, Janna Levin, Gül Dölen
In a Nutshell
In this June 2024 episode of the Joy of Why podcast, host Janna Levin interviews neuroscientist Gül Dölen about the medical advances surrounding psychedelic drugs, their possible impact on mental health conditions, and the barriers to their success.
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What neuroscientists have appreciated for a long time is that when we have a disease of the brain, when we have an injury to the brain, we are terrible at being able to cure those diseases of the brain, because by the time we intervene, the relevant critical period has already closed.
Gül Dölen
Introduction
Common understandings of psychedelic drugs and their effect on health and wellbeing are full of myths and scaremongering.
In this June 2024 episode of the Joy of Why podcast, co-host Janna Levin and guest Gül Dölen lift the lid on the scientific potential of psychedelics to heal trauma and combat mental health issues.
Gül Dölen is a neuroscientist and psychiatric researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who has a special interest in working on healing the brain's response to traumatic episodes.
Using Dölen's expertise in the field, the pair discuss social and legal attitudes toward psychedelics and how these drugs could be harnessed as a useful medical tool.
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