again, this is over ten years ago. just look at a little bit of what happened to her during and that session this is the place where we do the study. this is where we meet with people and then this is where we do the mdma sessions intense psychotherapy including eight hour sessions after taking a capsule of mdma i ve ecstasy. i listen closely on this tape. you can hear rachel along with dr. missile keep driving i ve felt as if my whole brain was powered up like a christmas tree all the ones we ve look at, you know, there s gonna be a lot of focus on this again, she essentially was describing a reset of her brain and within weeks, 90% of her symptoms which had been with her whole life, adult life when away. and that s what the advisory committee meeting is going to be talking about today. kate i mean, huge potential, especially as you well point out, it s been 25 years since there s been a new new medical treatment out for pts, it s really amazing. sandi, it s great to see y
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reduction in their symptoms compared to placebo, which was 69%. and i, both groups, i should point out also got talk therapy. if you look at how many people actually said, look my symptoms went away completely in the mdma group versus the placebo group the results were even a little bit more promising. you had about 71% of people who, in that mdma group who said their symptoms went away completely versus about 48% in the placebo group. so this is going to be the focus of the attention here. these are small studies still this is an advisory committee meetings, so there s a lot of steps but that s what s getting all the attention. i know a report prepared for the fda for today s meeting did raise some doubts about this therapy. what are the concerns? i think there s several, but there s a couple of big ones. one is that there can be some cardiac heart concerns with this this, this mdma meidum nifedipine is what it
might that be a problem? might there be an impact on the liver? but sort of a broader concern, kate, with psychedelic trials is that it s very hard to do a blinded trial. people generally know when they re getting the psychedelic versus when they re getting a placebo, right? unlike a lot of other medications. so can you really do a blinded trial? in fact, they asked the participants in these groups afterward, do you know what you actually received? and in the mdma group, the vast majority of people knew that they got at 94%, i believe knew that they actually, we re getting that mdma and the placebo group, most of the people knew that they weren t getting it so that s the real concern. i ve been reporting on this for a long time. we spoke to this it s woman over ten years ago, rachel, who is part of one of the early trials as a young child, she had been abused, she had been raped, she had post-traumatic stress, never really got any relief and then joined this trial for mdma