{"id":35557,"date":"2025-06-13T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/?p=35557"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:41:43","slug":"what-octopuses-teach-us-about-mdma-our-interview-with-gul-dolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/what-octopuses-teach-us-about-mdma-our-interview-with-gul-dolen\/","title":{"rendered":"What Octopuses Teach Us About MDMA: Our Interview With G\u00fcl D\u00f6len"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Psychedelics are the master keys to unlocking hidden potentials in our brains, claims G\u00fcl D\u00f6len, a Turkish-American neuroscientist and professor at UC Berkeley. Please watch and share Drugreporter\u2019s interview, filmed at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) 2024 in Haarlem, The Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my readers have probably seen colourful brain scan images that aim to represent changes in brain activity corresponding to the altered perception and cognition associated with psychedelic use. But can we really say that these regional changes in the brain fully explain the often highly sophisticated, and sometimes indescribable, visions people experience under the influence of psychedelics? G\u00fcl D\u00f6len casts doubt on this theory. Her groundbreaking MDMA studies with octopuses demonstrate that we need to find another explanatory mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZctGstCKTWg?si=gzhFRRJIOPQpHdQW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you prefer a podcast version? Here you go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio no-fitvids\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: What Octopuses Teach Us About MDMA: Our Interview With G\u00fcl D\u00f6len\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/427vb8vsk9anGsXSOqvrxo?si=6c308e38f18248b6&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why octopuses? Because most laboratory experiments use social animals\u2014mammals like rodents or monkeys. According to a long-held belief, only complex, advanced mammalian brains are capable of producing social behaviour and generating empathy. But the brains of octopuses are far more ancient and structurally different from human brains. Our ancestors diverged from theirs approximately 500 million years ago. So, if you can demonstrate that these otherwise solitary creatures respond to MDMA\u2014a drug known for its empathogenic properties\u2014it could revolutionise our understanding of empathy itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s exactly what G\u00fcl D\u00f6len and her colleagues did. Octopuses, usually cold and standoffish, were suddenly embracing and socialising under the influence of MDMA! But how can we explain that these asocial animals, with their almost alien-like brains, respond to MDMA in a way strikingly similar to social mammals like us? According to D\u00f6len, the explanation lies in what researchers call the <strong>critical period<\/strong>. This refers to a specific window in early life when the brain is more open to learning and forming social bonds. 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