Nerdette: Tripping Hard For Science
Nerdette: Tripping Hard For Science
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On this episode, we talk with a woman who administers drugs like LSD, Ecstasy and psilocybin to volunteers in an effort to learn more about the human nervous system.
Harriet de Wit, who runs the University of Chicago’s Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory , tells us how those trials go down, how these drugs might be used therapeutically and what causes people to take drugs in the first place.
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