Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers
The psychedelic renaissance is here! Join Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and special guests as they explore the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. Our hosts draw from their extensive knowledge and experience with psychedelic therapy research and treatment to discuss the science, practice, and art of psychedelic healing. If you are a helping professional, therapist, clinician, guide, healer, psychedelic enthusiast, or simply curious about mental, physical, and spiritual health, this is the podcast for you!
Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers
The neuroscience of psychedelics and mental health
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In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the neuroscience of psychedelics and mental health. Introduce basic neurochemistry, discuss the major neurotransmitters implicated in mental health, explore how psychotropic medicines affect neural circuits, and talk about how psychedelics affect neural circuitry.
(0:54) Positive review for the podcast
(2:07) The story of Phineas Gage
(7:15) Are we just meat machines? Biological reductionism
(12:13) Reid and Steve discuss their professional and personal journeys with psychedelics
(18:11) How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
(19:07) The ineffability of the psychedelic experience
(21:51) Default Mode Network
(28:54) What do psychiatric medications actually do?
(31:26) Non-medicine neurological interventions
(32:45) The Huberman Lab Podcast
(33:25) The electrical properties of physiology and mental health
(37:00) Serotonin and SSRIs
(38:56) Dopamine
(41:52) "feel good" and "negative" neurotransmitters
(46:20) The Art of Impossible, by Steven Kolter
(46:50) Oxytocin
(53:20) What are SSRIs doing?
(58:40) The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk
(01:00:10) SSRI vs psilocybin
(01:05:46) LSD and DMT
(01:07:50) MDMA and neurotoxicity
(01:14:11) Roll Safe Kit
(01:17:14) Ketamine
(01:21:25) Critical learning periods opened by psychedelic medicines
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