“What enrages me is the lack of reverence for psychedelics”

“What enrages me is the lack of reverence for psychedelics”

26 February 2024

| Synapse

A silent pandemic is looming large across the world. 1 in 4 persons – globally – suffers from a mental illness at some point in their lives.

As traditional psychiatry struggles to bear the growing burden, enter psychedelics.

Vidita Vaidya, an award-winning neuroscientist at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, discusses her work on stress and serotonin. The re-emerging field of psychedelics and new neuroscience. And how it could be the new wonder drug to treat mental health disorders.

Watch this eye-opening conversation between a mind & mood scientist and Shoma Chaudhury, Director-Curator of SYNAPSE and Founder of Lucid Lines.