Ecstasy boosts people's trust

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3121, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ecstasy makes one feels like everyone's his friend. Now an experiment in which people played a trust game after taking the drug is helping to explain why. Anthony Gabay at King's College London and his team gave 20 men MDMA and asked them to play a game called Prisoner's Dilemma on a computer while lying in a brain scanner. Brain scans showed that MDMA boosted activity in several brain areas linked to social behavior, including the right superior temporal sulcus. Recent work has shown the serotonin receptor that is activated by MDMA is found at the highest concentrations in the superior temporal sulci on both sides of the brain, as well as the other areas that became more active in this study.