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Mitul Mehta

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Mitul Mehta: Brain scanners can help revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Mitul Mehta, who is a professor of neuroimaging and psychopharmacology at King's College London, is using brain scanners to explore how psychedelic drugs and even hypnosis influence the brain in an effort to find new ways to treat psychiatric and neurological conditions.

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How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

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How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

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Brain activity can help predict who'll benefit from an antidepressant

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A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it

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A fingerprint can show if someone has taken cocaine or just touched it

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From alcohol to ketamine, what's the truth about recreational drugs?

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Benzodiazepine prescriptions reach ‘disturbing’ levels in the US

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What it’s like to trip on psilocybin for a scientific research study

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What it’s like to trip on psilocybin for a scientific research study

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The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV

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The global failure to push PrEP is hindering the fight against HIV

The UN set a target of 3 million people on the HIV prevention drug PrEP by 2020 – but lingering prejudice and sheer ignorance of its existence mean we're nowhere near

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Cholesterol levels predict if under-45s will ever have heart disease

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The science of cannabis: Can it really help our mental health?

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How we're using CRISPR to fight cancer

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Fast access to new medicines shouldn’t mean endangering our health

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