what a medicine that increases plasticity does is it injects some flexibility into the cognitive

rigidity. And well, maybe it doesn't have to be this way. Well, what if you think about it another way?

And it's a chance for the brain to really do a little rewiring. I'm putting this in quotes.

You know, we know that the that the neurons, the brain cells make new

sort of dendrites, like new arms. They make new synapses, which is new connections with other

brain cells. We know that ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ibogaine, These things all increase plasticity in the brain for a certain period of time.

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It is absolutely my stoken pleasure to get to welcome Dr. Julie Holland, a psychiatrist, a psychopharmacologist,

a best-selling author of Weekends at Bellevue, Moody Bitches, Good Chemistry, Right Here, You're Most Recent,

as well as a host of other books on psychopharmacology and the ways we humans feel and heal,

a musician, a rock and roll queen, a wife and mother and an all-round advocate for good things, healing,

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Julie, welcome to homegrown humans.

Stoke to connect.

Thank you for having me.

That was a lovely introduction.

It's all true.

All those things are true.

Yeah.

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