Investigators: Harriet de Wit PhD, Gillinder Bedi D.Psych, David Hyman
Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Social neuroscience studies examined how MDMA affected identification of and response to facial emotional expressions, including imaging brain activity after viewing different emotions.
- Bedi G, Hyman D, de Wit H (2010) Is ecstasy an “empathogen”? Effects of +/-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine on prosocial feelings and identification of emotional states in others. Biological psychiatry 68:1134-1140.
- Bedi G, Phan KL, Angstadt M, de Wit H (2009) Effects of MDMA on sociability and neural response to social threat and social reward. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 207:73-83.
