Linus Abrams

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"MDMA is a so-called empathogen — it increases empathy. Certain types of PTSD — when empathy is called for related to reconciliation of relationships or traumatic experiences — it might have a very strong role."

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"A series of monotherapies with antidepressants, in combination therapies with antidepressants and mood stabilizers — and let's say lithium, which is a so-called augmentation strategy."

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"Atypical antipsychotics are also indicated for treatment-resistant depression — drugs like Rexulti, Abilify, Brexpiprazole, Aripiprazole, Ziprasidone, Olanzapine. Those drugs are often quite effective as augmentation strategies adding on top of an antidepressant."

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"The Robin Carhart-Harris REBUS model — Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics — is about neuroplasticity for adjusting maladaptive priors. People who have beliefs that are problematic for them, underpinning a lot of depressive and anxiety disorders. Administering classic psychedelics provides a therapeutic window within which a lot of neuroplasticity occurs."

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"He had been under the care of a doctor before he came into our practice that was trying to give him Arimidex — which for the listener is a drug that prevents the aromatization of testosterone into estradiol — and he had been taught that estrogen was bad and you want high testosterone and low estrogen. So needless to say we had a great discussion about why that was a very bad idea."