Personal Head-space

Don’t come any closer! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. People with psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, tend to need more personal space. Why? Enter, Louis Vinke and team at Massachusetts General Hospital. They recruited healthy adults and participants diagnosed with schizophrenia. While participants watched

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Medicinal Molly

Psychiatrists might be RAVING about a new treatment soon! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Severe stress or trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Existing treatments don’t always work well or quickly enough. MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly – so I’ve

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