What Went Wrong? MDMA-AT on the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

The field of psychiatry wasn't engaged by MAPS, and should have been

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health-themed newsletter…that tries to have a laugh while exploring serious topics.

Every once in a while, Owen Muir, M.D., also gets to crank out serious academic work. Much of that has been on topics of neuromodulation, Ai diagnostics, and psychedelic medicine. For new readers, there is a bar at the top of the website version that lets you visit my Google Scholar publications. Or just click here.

Playfully posing in my attractive Acacia Clinics fleece in London.

I was recently interviewed for the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast about some of these articles, and some of that tape appears in the two-part series they did on what went wrong in the MAPS/Lykos trials, as reviewed by an FDA Advisory Committee recently.

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Part 2:

This is not the last word on MDMA-AT, MDMA, or any other psychedelic medicine. It is a reminder that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. We have been here before in the medical discipline of psychiatry.…