by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 2, 2018 | Anxiety
How do a few pounds of gray goo in our skulls create our conscious experience—the blue of the sky, the tweet of the birds? Few questions are so profound and important—or so hard. We are still very far from an answer. But we are learning more about what scientists call...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Addiction
A huge amount of research is currently underway investigating the compelling, and novel, effects of ketamine on depression. The entirely unique way the drug interacts with the brain is revealing new and exciting pathways for neuroscientists investigating everything...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
It is exhilarating to witness a resurgence in the study of psychedelics, something President Nixon and his disastrous drug war halted (“The New Science of Psychedelics,” Review, May 5). But of equal, if not more important, value would be a study of those among us who...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Bipolar Disorder
n the nineteen-fifties and sixties, researchers explored the therapeutic effects of LSD on alcoholism, depression, and a number of other conditions. Then the counterculture came along, LSD became a recreational drug, and the research dried up. In this week’s...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Depression
Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and activist, but to many she is best known as the author of a Times piece, from 2005, in which she stated that she was more in love with her husband than with her four children. (“Her eyes were close set, and she...
