The Science of MDMA with Ben Rein

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Can MDMA make you a better person? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience of empathy, psychopathy, and MDMA in the brain with neuroscientist Ben Rein, PhD.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk Special Edition, we're tackling the subject of the neuroscience of empathy and how MDMA plays its role in that study.
0:12.0	We've got neuroscientists Ben Rain here, a researcher at
0:16.7	Stanford University. You don't want to miss that one.
0:21.5	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:23.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.0	Star Talk begins right now. This is a Star Talk special edition. Neil degrass Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:48.0	I got with me my usual co-host Gary O'Reilly. Gary, how you doing'm good nail nice to be back in yeah yeah former soccer pro and sports commentator and
0:59.5	I'm delighted that the sports universe has shared you with us.
1:04.3	And I got Chuck Nice.
1:06.1	Check Nice.
1:06.6	What's up?
1:07.2	What's up, Neil?
1:08.4	Stand Up comedian and actor?
1:11.4	Yes.
1:12.2	So today, we're to study a fascinating subject that I think everybody
1:16.8	cares about or at least should care about and it's the neuroscience of empathy.
1:23.0	empathy.
1:25.0	Yeah, like some people have it.
1:28.0	Oh well, sorry, I'm out.
1:30.0	There you go, it's over for me already.
1:34.0	Some people have it.
1:36.0	Some people don't, you know, and why don't they and should they or could they?
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