PTSD
topic on 7 shows · 15 statements across 11 episodes
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
Lenny's Podcast 
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Sourcery 
the a16z Podcast 
TBPN
15 statements about PTSD, every show
Harrison: Palmer Luckey's Defense Interest Began with High School VR Research
“While he was in high school, he volunteered at a lab where they were basically doing research around how to use virtual reality to help soldiers deal with PTSD.”
Mares: Ketamine therapy works better than SSRIs for severe depression and PTSD
“Ketamine therapy, ketamine assisted therapy works better than SSRIs in many cases, especially for treating things that are very intense, like treatment resistant depression, PTSD, things like this.”
Huberman: Data shows microdosing psilocybin lacks major effects on depression or PTSD
“The data on microdosing psilocybin Are basically clear that it's not known to have any major effect on major depression or some of the other things that psilocybin is being tested for clinically including major depression, PTSD, et cetera.”
Huberman: MDMA will ultimately receive FDA approval for PTSD
“So I think ultimately it will be approved.”
Huberman: Properly dosed MDMA yields 60% to 70% PTSD remission rates
“The remission rates on PTSD, by the way, from Properly dosed and spaced MDMA is remarkable. Up to somewhere between 60 and 70% remission rates on PTSD.”
Huberman: Microdosing psilocybin has no major therapeutic effect on depression
“The data on micro dosing psilocybin are basically clear that it's not known to have any major effect on major depression. Or some of the other things that psilocybin is being tested for clinically including major depression, PTSD, et cetera.”
MDMA achieves 60% to 70% remission rates for PTSD
“The remission rates on PTSD, by the way, from properly dosed and spaced MDMA is remarkable up to somewhere between 60 and 70% remission rates on PTSD.”
Bryan Johnson: Emergent evidence shows psychedelics are alternatives to pharma drugs
“There's a lot of interesting trials for veterans working on PTSD. You know, also psilocybin is very promising. So I'd say, yeah, psychedelics are having a resurgence in the US of interest where they got pretty buried by the government in the seventies, eightie…”
ADHD and PTSD Correlate With Low Interoception
“ADHD tends to correlate with low levels of interoception, as does if people have PTSD or trauma, again, interoception is lowered.”
Weisbrot: Research proves microdosing psilocybin treats PTSD, anxiety, and depression
“Because there's very clear and known research that has shown, you know, microdosing mushrooms can significantly help with or get rid of PTSD, stress, anxiety, depression.”
Caliri: MDMA is one of the most promising treatments for PTSD
“There's a great phase two trial using MDMA for patients with PTSD. That result was released, I think a couple months ago from a nonprofit called MAPS. And the results are really strong. It's one of the most promising therapeutic modalities out there for PTSD.”
Weisbrot: Early Vietnam War Military Research Found LSD Cured PTSD
“Even I believe during Vietnam, in the early days of Vietnam the military was doing research with PTSD and other trauma with LSD, and they found that it was basically curing soldiers' PTSD.”
Pande: Digital therapeutics will majorly impact behavioral health conditions
“You know, when we think about this space, there are some things that I really imagine digital therapeutics making a huge impact in. Anything that's behavioral in nature. That when you talk about PTSD depression, anxiety, sleeping issues, and especially somethi…”
Pande: Type 2 diabetes and PTSD are behavioral problems needing non-pill solutions
“So the area of digital therapeutics lies in the fact that for many areas, such as type two diabetes, anxiety, depression, PTSD, I think our go-to for cures for this is a pill, but actually these are behavioral problems, and it's much more natural to have a beh…”