Why an Infamous MDMA Study Was Retracted
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Andrew Huberman explains how a major study claiming MDMA causes severe brain damage turned out to be the result of an accidental methamphetamine injection.
- 1. Huberman explains the scientific controversy and retraction behind early primate studies investigating the neurotoxicity of MDMA.
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I mean MDMA for the treatment of trauma is looking really promising The early studies including one that was published in Science showed that non human primates that are given MDMA experience neuron loss that neurons die in the brain And that message propagated That paper was retracted because that laboratory accidentally injected methamphetamine not MDMA MDMA is How did they accidentally mix those two I don't know what happened
I mean MDMA for the treatment of trauma is looking really promising The early studies including one that was published in Science showed that non human primates that are given MDMA experience neuron loss that neurons die in the brain And that message propagated That paper was retracted because that laboratory accidentally injected methamphetamine not MDMA MDMA is How did they accidentally mix those two I don't know what happened
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