MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD: Are Memory Reconsolidation and Fear Extinction Underlying Mechanisms?

Allison Feduccia, Ph.D., and Michael C.Mithoefer, M.A., of MAPS Public Benefit Corporation explore how fear extinction and memory reconsolidation could possibly be mechanisms underlying the beneficial outcomes of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for reducing PTSD symptoms in Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. Read the article…