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Chris Smith.

And coming up, why a dose of old drugs might be a new way to beat depression,

with many countries gearing up for general elections in the year ahead

why AI generated deepfakes have got some politicians very worried

and we look back at the life of the pioneering British transplant surgeon

Professor Sir Roy Khan.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,

this is the Naked Scientists. First this week new research suggests that mood altering drugs such as the anesthetic ketamine and the hallucinogen

silosibin can help alleviate symptoms in difficult to treat cases of depression.

That much was known, but why wasn't. And the experiments which were carried out on rats by a team

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