The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
compare people who have for instance taken MDMA zero times to people who have taken MDMA one time or five times or believe it or not there's some studies sitting right here in front of me on my desk of people who have taken MDMA more than 200 times and ask the same sorts of questions which brain areas are more or less active
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of course one can do studies where you give people different dosages of MDMA as well as giving people MDMA and then giving them specific stimuli meaning not just asking them to sit there in the fmri scanner with eyes closed looking at the resting state functional connectivity but also how the brain responds to the presentation of happy faces or sad faces or images of oneself or even images that recall memories of traumatic events and so on