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Tim Ferriss · 2024-01-05

The New Frontiers of Mental Health — Brain Stimulation, Rapid-Acting Tools for Depression, and More

The New Frontiers of Mental Health — Brain Stimulation, Rapid-Acting Tools for Depression, and More

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I Feel Love

Rachel Nuwer (inferred)

“She also has a great book on MDMA and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy”
“She also has a great book on MDMA and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, the history and implications that recently came out”— Tim Ferriss
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National Geographic (article on ibogaine/iboga by Rachel Nuwer)

National Geographic

“there's a great piece that came out in National Geographic”
“there's a great piece that came out in National Geographic not too long ago by journalist named Rachel Nuwer”— Tim Ferriss

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Breaking Open the Head

Daniel Pinchbeck

“I come across this book Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck... He talks about his own personal experience of it, and then I read a lot about it.”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

“You look at Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and he's very good. There are many, many examples”— Tim Ferriss
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Thorazine

“What was the first antipsychotic? Dr. Nolan Williams: Thorazine.”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Lexapro

“What's the trade name for escitalopram? Do you know what people would know it as? Dr. Nolan Williams: Lexapro.”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Celexa

“And citalopram, Celexa. So those drugs, and then you go to SNRIs, like Effexor”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Effexor

“then you go to SNRIs, like Effexor, venlafaxine, and then into the tricyclics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Tikosyn

“Tikosyn, T-I-K-O-S-Y-N, is a drug that is approved for atrial fibrillation and it's an antiarrhythmic that can be pro-arrhythmic”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Suboxone

“You're replacing a higher-risk opiate with a lower-risk opiate, so that's Suboxone, which contains buprenorphine and methadone”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Ozempic

Novo Nordisk (inferred)

“does it in any way tie into what we're seeing with some of these drugs... the semaglutide and Ozempic-like drugs”— Tim Ferriss
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Wegovy

Novo Nordisk (inferred)

“And also kind of similar to some of these Wegovy kind of drugs, you can drive down some of the pleasure”— Dr. Nolan Williams
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Mounjaro

Eli Lilly (inferred)

“how does this compare to something like Semaglutide or an Ozempic or some of the newer gen, I think Mounjaro”— Tim Ferriss