When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) last year, the details of its objections were not ...

The FDA still requires convincing safety and efficacy data on psychedelic agents, including MDMA, before approval. The VA and ...

Research suggests the therapeutic use of MDMA (ecstasy) may help people living with PTSD, but FDA approval is still pending. MDMA alters brain chemicals and processes related to memory consolidation, ...

Just like shoulder pads and bleached tips, drugs fall in and out of fashion with the scientific and medical establishment. And perhaps none is having such a renaissance moment as MDMA. Whether you ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. For a while, MDMA looked poised to make history. After decades of advocacy from impassioned supporters, the party drug best known ...

Heavy use of MDMA (ecstasy) may lead to long-term changes in your brain’s serotonin system — but there’s a lot we still don’t know. MDMA, also known as ecstasy or Molly, is a synthetic psychoactive ...

Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives. Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed ...

A group of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists have found that the psychoactive drug MDMA, or ecstasy, causes a neural response called a "critical period," when the brain is sensitive to learning the reward ...

In the 47 years since she was raped by multiple assailants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Susie Chin has tried to overcome the negative side effects through traditional therapy. But that has gone only ...

MDMA therapy uses regulated doses of MDMA alongside psychotherapy sessions to help treat certain psychiatric conditions. MDMA increases certain neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, in the brain.

On Sept. 13, information about the results of a new Phase 3 Trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD treatment was published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Substances (MAPS). The ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, SC, USA - AUGUST 24: A dose of MDMA in the office of Dr. Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist, who has studied the use of MDMA as a treatment for PTSD in Mount Pleasant, SC, USA on August ...