Study shows psychedelicdrugs reopen 'critical periods' for social learning nature
MDMA, a psychedelic drug that arouses feelings of love and sociability, opens a critical period in mice.
For the current study, Dölen's team looked at the reopening potential of five psychedelic drugs—ibogaine, ketamine, LSD, MDMA and psylocibin—shown in numerous studies as able to change normal perceptions of existence and enable a sense of discovery about one's self or the world. The researchers say the length of time that the critical period stayed open in mice seems to roughly parallel the average length of time that people self-report the acute effects of each psychedelic drug.
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