Research is planned to investigate if psychedelics can help retired UFC athletes with depression from head impacts, and improve cognitive function and gray matter volume.

“But what I'm hoping to do with some work with retired athletes who had been exposed. By the nature of their sport, for example, MMA athletes in the UFC who have been exposed to repetitive head impacts, like a lot of sports expose people to, and who are retired from the sport, and are suffering from, say, depression, which can, impart, result from those types of, that history of head impact. See if we can fix the depression, but then also as a cherry on top, in a more exploratory aim, see if we can have evidence of improvement in cognitive function, and associate like using MRI to see if it affects gray matter over time, these types of things, to see if there actually is some evidence of this improved, like this more direct repair of the brain.”