Social Cognition, Oxytocin, MDMA, Critical Periods, Metaplasticity, Autism, Psychedelics & Octopus Neurobiology | Gül Dölen | #62

Send us a textNick talks to Dr. Gül Dölen, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Her lab studies the circuit and synaptic mechanisms of social cognition in health and disease.Nick and Dr. Dölen discussed her research on critical periods for social reward learning in rodents, the role of oxytocin in social behavior and learning, and how MDMA ("ecstasy") promotes prosocial behavior in animals as diverse as humans, rodents, and octopuses. They also talked about how drugs like ...