The groundbreaking study will begin this week as it seeks to unlock ways to heal from PTSD.
A phase four trial will begin on Wednesday, June 5, conducted by the Sydney-based Evolution Medicine Enhanced Therapy team.
"Both PTSD and TRD can have a severe and debilitating impact on a person's life; making it difficult to complete everyday tasks, enjoy healthy intimate relationships and to be productive at work, due to feelings of disconnection, depression, anxiety hypervigilance and avoidance," Gunewardene said. The father is 61-year-old Adam Bray, whose son Zach was killed in the Hunter Valley bus crash last June.The effectiveness of psychedelics in therapy around the world has been previously studied in Australia and internationally.
"We believe that combining MDMA with intensive psychotherapy, will help a patient enter an evolved and enlightened state of mind, while the fear centre of the brain, the amygdala, is switched down," Gunewardene said."This in turn allows the patient with expert therapeutic support, to more safely explore and reprocess events, feelings, beliefs and relational experiences, that were previously found to be far too distressing, or in some cases downright terrifying.
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