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As well as certain cancers and many other things. Neuroscience is taking but baby steps, it's currently in the XVII century equivalent stage of development.

An interesting thing to know is how seizures and mental illnesses interact, for instance. Yes, we're talking ancient early XX century "connect a brain to electric current" kind of thing but at better precision. Electroshock therapy. We know so very little here.

It could well be that psychedelics and this share the mechanism of action. Or not.




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