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

of how you experience yourself. voice-verified

Sometimes that's very positive in the sense that the sense of like a loss of ego. voice-verified

Sometimes that same loss of ego can be experienced very negatively and very destructively. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Um I suppose the main differences are that with a psychosis you'd expect kind of a a disruption of thought that's much more provoc profound and a disruption of your ability to act in the world. voice-verified

And of course voice-verified

Psychosis. voice-verified

It lasts a lot longer, it can last in episodes of weeks, months, sometimes years at the extreme. voice-verified

But it makes sense to me, you know, that that at that time it would feel that's these kinds of compounds could be a really useful gateway to understand. voice-verified

A psychosis. voice-verified

And so did Dr. voice-verified

Snyder's initial experiments. voice-verified

Did they focus on LSD primarily? voice-verified

And what did he discover w with his experiments using amphetamines? voice-verified

And I would add just from my own clinical experience, I totally agree. voice-verified

And a psychosis that's kind of a more typical schizophrenia without drugs is in my experience clinically indistinguishable from a psychosis that someone gets from heavy cannabis use, heavy amphetamine use. voice-verified

We've had m I've seen many cases of patients, for example, uh coming to a psychiatric ward with like a full-on. voice-verified

Psychotic episode, and then they stay off, for example, cannabis for for three days and they go completely back to baseline. voice-verified

So voice-verified

Totally makes sense that then he would follow the path to studying amphetamines. voice-verified

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