How MDMA Reenergizes Your Brain’s Plasticity
Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change, modify and adapt its structure and function over the course of life as a response to various experiences. This ability is often disrupted in the early stages of depression, with negative stimuli such as stress causing changes in neuroplasticity that play a major role in the development of depression. Treatments meant to alleviate depression work by acting on neural plasticity to increase the brain’s plasticity and adult neurogenesis. In recent years, the scientific community has increasingly turned its eyes to psychedelic drugs as alternative treatments for mental health conditions, including depression. Initial studies…