Dr. Alex Curmi

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2,747 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

Dr. Alex Curmi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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The Thinking Mind: Mental Health & Personal Growth · E185 | How Psychiatry Became Fixated on Chemical Imbalance (w/ Prof. Justin Garson) · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Firstly, Justin, it's really great to to start who was who was Solomon Snyder? voice-verified

Mm-hmm. voice-verified

And my understanding is he was quite precocious, like he started medic medical school in at the age of nineteen, something like that. voice-verified

So quite uh unusually gifted personality. voice-verified

Yeah, that's I kind of feel the same about psychiatry. voice-verified

You know, of all the medical specialties I could choose, this seems to be I kind of want your job, Justin. voice-verified

I kind of want it to be a philosopher on some level. voice-verified

But this is the closest I can get and a medical specialty, so I can definitely resonate with that. voice-verified

Maybe to like set the scene a bit. voice-verified

So what was how was schizophrenia viewed before the discoveries that were made in this book? voice-verified

How was schizophrenia viewed by the psychiatric community? voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

And and my understanding was at that time they just didn't understand the right doses as well. voice-verified

So even though the drugs may have been helpful, they were using really, really high doses, getting like heavy sedation as a side effect, hence getting that sort of chemical lobotomy type of effect. voice-verified

Was there any particular catalyst that got Solomon Snyder involved, any kind of epiphany or moment where he decided to start to pursue this track of trying to understand the biology of schizophrenia? voice-verified

And then what what happens next? voice-verified

Which makes sense. voice-verified

I mean, I guess there are for listeners, there are important similarities and differences between a psychedelic experience and a psychosis. voice-verified

I suppose the biggest similarity which jumps to mind is you just understand that your perceptual systems are more malleable than you might expect. voice-verified

You know, you can hear things, you can hallucinate visually on LSD, you can have very like disturbances of voice-verified

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