Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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3 papers

The cost-effectiveness of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD

Elliot Marseille, James G. Kahn, Berra Yazar‐Klosinski, Rick Doblin
PLoS ONE Summary & key facts 2020 53 citations

MAPS reports results from a randomized, blinded Phase 3 trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for severe, chronic PTSD (90 people, average 14 years of PTSD). After three MDMA-assisted therapy sessions, 67% of treated participants no longer met the study's PTSD diagnosis and 88% had a clinically meaningful symptom drop, compared with…

Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Psychedelics and Drug Studies

PROTOCOL: Group‐based interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the role of trauma type

Siobhán M. Griffin, Alžběta Lebedová, Elayne Ahern, Grace McMahon, Daragh Bradshaw, Orla T. Muldoon
Campbell Systematic Reviews Summary & key facts 2023 4 citations

This paper is a protocol for a planned systematic review and meta-analysis. The authors will collect and combine studies that test group-based treatments for people with PTSD or people referred to PTSD group treatment. They plan to look not only at whether group treatments reduce PTSD symptoms, but also at…

Child Abuse and Trauma Migration, Health and Trauma Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
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