Neuroscientist Gül Dölen wants to use drugs to help adults be more childlike when it comes to the art of learning.
Even in the best circumstances for stroke patients, though, therapy usually only helps them compensate for lost dexterity. They don’t recover full movement. The Kata team and Dölen are now planning a study to see if adding psychedelics could help stroke patients truly recover—“an unbelievably powerful idea,” says Kata member Steven Zeiler, a stroke physician and associate professor of neurology.
For now, this is all the stuff of theory—but it’s a theory Dölen is betting on in a big way. She’s launched a new scientific group to investigate psychedelics as potential keys for reopening all kinds of critical periods. The group’s name,, stands for Psychedelic Healing: Adjunct Therapy Harnessing Opened Malleability—a mouthful that came to her in a dream. “I woke up at 2 am and I had it, the whole acronym,” she says.
If psychedelics really are this master key, then scientists suddenly have at their disposal an instrument for deducing the rules and boundaries that define who we are. Critical periods, after all, lay the foundations for our habits, culture, memories and mannerisms, our likes and dislikes—and everything in between that ultimately distinguishes us as individuals and, collectively, as a species.
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