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How psychedelics can reinvent learning

How psychedelics can reinvent learning

Guest host Sigal Samuels interviews neuroscientist Gul Dolen about her groundbreaking research, which points to a future where psychedelics might be the master key that unlocks conditions from strokes and autism to deafness and blindness… while helping us all to learn like little kids again.

The Gray Area with Sean Illing · Vox

January 8, 202437m 19s

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Show Notes

If you’ve felt that learning new information or developing a new skill seems harder as you get older, you are not wrong. Neuroscientist Gul Dolen has studied brain capability and joins us to talk about the times in human development when our brains are especially adept at learning and retaining new information, and how MDMA and other psychedelics can be used to induce these moments and unlock the brain’s potential.


Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area

Guest: Gul Dolen. Learn more about her work at www.dolenlab.org.


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This episode was made by: 

  • Producer: Jon Ehrens 
  • Engineer: Patrick Boyd

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