ESP Biography

Ever heard of dopamine referred to as "the happy molecule"? Been told to do something to "increase the dopamine" in your brain? Heard dopamine mentioned in the news, in a song, in an ad for a weird supplement? Wondering what dopamine is *actually* doing in your brain? Come for a mini deep dive into neuroscience where we explore what dopamine is doing behind the scenes in some of our most fundamental behaviors - and think a little more about what pop science and media is telling us and not telling us!

Interested in mental health? Psychiatric disease? Drugs - and the science behind them? There's a growing body of evidence that psychedelics can be used as medicine for some of our most untreatable illnesses. How? We're actually still figuring it out! Come for a close look at how we *think* psychedelics affect your brain, how they could be used for therapeutic purposes, and a broad review of how politics, history, and past science have set up the current state of the field. **psychedelics not provided**