July 26, 2012 – Use of 3,4-methylinedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) — even in small amounts for a relatively short period — may harm memory, a new study suggests. Investigators at the ...

You’ve likely heard of MDMA, but you may know it better as ecstasy or molly. A popular “club drug” in the 1980s and ’90s, more than 18 million people said they had tried MDMA at least once ...

If that was true, long-term use would effectively achieve the opposite effect of short-term use: So far, studies on MDMA have show that short-term increases empathy and induces heightened levels ...

And the benefits may be long-term: One study found that 67% of people reported that they no longer met the criteria for PTSD a year after they finished MDMA-assisted therapy.

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from UCL and Imperial College London are carrying out a neuroscience study to examine for the first time how the resting brain responds to MDMA, the pure form of ...

Some things also worth mentioning that are not addressed in the video are the long-term effects of taking MDMA, which include long-lasting brain damage and memory loss, and (in severe cases) death.

MDMA (3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a drug that changes a person’s mood and has similar effects to stimulants and hallucinogens. It is a synthetic drug made from safrole oil.

Alongside its positive findings on the short-term effects of MDMA, Lykos presented data from a follow-up observational study intended to suss out the staying power of the treatment.