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Podcast: The Superhumanize Podcast
Episode: Dr. Rachel Yehuda On MDMA and Psilocybin Studies for PTSD, Biological and Generational Trauma Studied in Holocaust Survivors
Description: At present, we're witnessing exciting developments with regards to novel treatments for trauma and PTSD. There have been compelling study results using substances like MDMA and psilocybin, and they could become game changers with how we treat individual and maybe even collective suffering and trauma in the future, once these substances are legalized for medical and therapeutic use.
My guest today, Dr. Rachel Yehuda, is the director of the Center for the Study of Psychedelic Psychotherapy and a professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Yehuda has researched trauma and its treatment...