is a senior clinical fellow on the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, an instructor at the Institute of Psychiatry in King’s College, and the CEO of Pasithea Therapeutics.

Tiago Reis Marques, MD, PhD

Existing treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are few in number and, too often, ineffective. Although still classified as a Schedule I drug, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) has improved symptoms PTSD in 

In this Mental Health Minute, Tiago Reis Marques, MD, PhD, shares the results of 

, in which the MDMA-assisted arm of the study outperformed the placebo by 35%. He revisits the history of MDMA and looks to the future, when this Schedule I drug may be approved as a legal treatment.

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