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A warm welcome. Thanks for coming here today. My name's Liam Modlin. I'm a psychology and psychotherapy lead in

psychedelics at the Psychoactive Trials Group at King's College London. No, thank you very much for inviting me in,

because this is where the psychedelic research

happens, isn't it? And that's what we're having a look at in the whole of this episode of

Inside Health, whether it can actually be a big breakthrough in the field of mental health

research and treatment. So where am I? You're at the clinical trials facility at King's College

Hospital, and you are currently in our dosing room.

We're going to be talking a lot about psychedelics and how they could revolutionize mental health.

So first of all, let's be clear, what are psychedelics?

Well, here's psychiatrists, James Rucker, and first David Oretzo.

The more classic psychedelics, they are psilocybin, which exists in magic mushrooms or magic

truffles, DMT, which is this psychedelic active compound in a psychedelic brew used in the

Amazonian cultures called ayahuasca, and we are using that in trials to test it for depression as well.

Mascalin is coming from the peyote cactus, and then LSD synthetic compound developed around

a Second World War in Switzerland.

Then you also have five ameo-d-dm-toxin from a toad in nature.

So you have all these different compounds.

So a psychedelic drug is a type of drug that has

a specific effect in the brain, stimulates a certain type of serotonin receptor in the brain in an unusual

way. And this results in quite a profound and unusual experience that can be mystical, very pleasurable, but also anxiety-provoking.

People can misperceive things, even hallucinate.

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