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Molly Webster

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
543 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

Because everyone had to go home for dinner. And you're like, we can't test this anymore. I mean, it's just sort of interesting because you think... even four days four days two weeks more than a month like are you just in those moments like vulnerable to everything are you like it just feels like the the next couple of weeks like solidly matter

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's funny. Yeah, I think about, I mean, recreational psychedelics use. People are doing it all the time. At least in my world. And like now I just like want to be like, OK, for for the next two weeks, if you could, you know, be careful or maybe go if you go take a yoga class, if you really want to learn that. Yeah. That technique or something. I don't know.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's funny. Yeah, I think about, I mean, recreational psychedelics use. People are doing it all the time. At least in my world. And like now I just like want to be like, OK, for for the next two weeks, if you could, you know, be careful or maybe go if you go take a yoga class, if you really want to learn that. Yeah. That technique or something. I don't know.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's funny. Yeah, I think about, I mean, recreational psychedelics use. People are doing it all the time. At least in my world. And like now I just like want to be like, OK, for for the next two weeks, if you could, you know, be careful or maybe go if you go take a yoga class, if you really want to learn that. Yeah. That technique or something. I don't know.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's just the vulnerability part of it feels and vulnerability is it has such a negative connotation. But I do think it goes both ways of like it just you're vulnerable, you're malleable, you're open. That feels like a double edged sword.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's just the vulnerability part of it feels and vulnerability is it has such a negative connotation. But I do think it goes both ways of like it just you're vulnerable, you're malleable, you're open. That feels like a double edged sword.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's just the vulnerability part of it feels and vulnerability is it has such a negative connotation. But I do think it goes both ways of like it just you're vulnerable, you're malleable, you're open. That feels like a double edged sword.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's like social where mammals are social.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's like social where mammals are social.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

It's like social where mammals are social.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

What's like the hardcore critical period that would.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

What's like the hardcore critical period that would.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

What's like the hardcore critical period that would.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

And just real quick, why is motor neuron like the top of the mountain for critical periods?

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

And just real quick, why is motor neuron like the top of the mountain for critical periods?

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

And just real quick, why is motor neuron like the top of the mountain for critical periods?

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

So the main thing that Gould's team is focused on right now is designing a clinical trial for stroke patients. What they know is that generally after a stroke, the critical learning window is open for about two to three months.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

So the main thing that Gould's team is focused on right now is designing a clinical trial for stroke patients. What they know is that generally after a stroke, the critical learning window is open for about two to three months.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

So the main thing that Gould's team is focused on right now is designing a clinical trial for stroke patients. What they know is that generally after a stroke, the critical learning window is open for about two to three months.

Radiolab
The Ecstasy of an Open Brain

Say your trial works, that you see that if you have a stroke and I give you MDMA and for two weeks we do stuff and you can gain motor neuron skills back, that's great. But imagine that you don't gain all your skills back. So then you're like, okay, well, I'm gonna do MDMA again, keep the window open for two weeks so I get a month out of this, right? Two doses, I get a month where I'm open.