Routine Checkup: MDMA Therapy & The Neuroscience of Love with Brian Earp

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CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Turns out love is more than just a bunch of birds and bees getting it on. There is an entire science behind what happens in the human brain when we fall head over heels. Love chemicals flood the brain when we form attachment and fall in lurrrv. Not unlike how MDMA (also known as ecstasy) floods the brain with feel-good neurotransmitters. Now combine MDMA alongside couples therapy and you've got a pretty interesting potential for groundbreaking work in healing past trauma. We are elated to be joined by Brian Earp — Associate Director of the Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University & Research Fellow in Practical Ethics at Oxford, to discuss this fascinating topic with us.

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0:00.0	Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's best comics battle it out.
0:05.2	This week, we're asking if silence is golden, which is quite the question for two comedians.
0:09.6	And this goes without saying.
0:11.5	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:21.9	And we're sitting now, yeah.
0:23.6	We go to kids, yeah, all the money is.
0:27.1	We go to the kids, yeah, all in our eyes.
0:30.8	We go to things, yeah, all in our heads, we're going to things, yeah, we're going to be talking about the
0:49.6	neuroscience of love. And I feel like I just got to get this off my chest. I am feeling something's going on in my
0:57.5	brain right now. There's some neuroscience of love happening in my brain right now because I just
1:00.9	looked at photos of my, of the puppy that I'm going to receive in eight weeks. And I'm overflowing
1:08.1	with love for something. No, it's different, man. I'm overflowing with love for That's cute aggression for something.
1:11.0	No, it's different, man.
1:11.9	I'm overflowing with love for something that I haven't even met.
1:15.6	And to get to the bottom of what the fuck is going on in my body,
1:19.3	we are here talking to Brian Earp,
1:21.5	Associate Director of the Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University
1:26.1	and Research Fellow in Practical Ethics at Yale University and research fellow in practical ethics at Oxford.
1:31.5	Brian, you sound like a smart guy.
1:34.3	Oh, I don't know.
1:35.4	We'll find out.
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