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Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. I'm Nate.

And I'm Callie. If you're dropping it for the

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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how VR is as effective as psychedelics at helping people reach

transcendence, whether Stonehenge may have been an ancient calendar, and how COVID-19 has affected

women in late pregnancy.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

Callie, we've talked about psychedelics before,

but if you're not willing to try LSD or silocybin,

there might be another option and it might be in your house.

Something you can take that has the same effect as psychodellics?

Not take. Where? New research has shown that virtual reality or VR can cause incredibly similar experiences to taking medium doses of psychedelics

This new finding could soon be used as therapy for patients with hard to treat mental

disorders like addiction, PTSD and depression.

That is too cool, but before we talk about how these VR experiences mimic psychedelics, We have discussed this quite a bit on

on this show, but can you remind us all what psychedelics do? Sure, yeah, these are a

class of drugs that are known to alter your sensory perception, and this often causes a change in the ways our

brains process information. Recent trials have begun studying them again for the first

time since the 70s. Researchers are particularly interested in how they affect

OCD, addiction, and depression where the standard treatment often fails patients.

They've been so good at treating these issues in fact that in 2019 the FDA designated one silocybin from

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