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Reply to: Caution at psychiatry’s psychedelic frontier and Challenges with benchmarking of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy

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The Original Article was published on 11 October 2021

The Original Article was published on 11 October 2021

replying to M. J. Burke & D. M. Blumberger. Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01524-1 (2021)

replying to J. Ø. Halvorsen, F. Naude & I. A. Cristea. Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01525-0 (2021)

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  1. Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jennifer Mitchell & Allison Coker

  2. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jennifer Mitchell

  3. San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jennifer Mitchell

  4. MAPS Public Benefit Corporation (MAPS PBC), San Jose, CA, USA

    Allison Coker

  5. Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), San Jose, CA, USA

    Berra Yazar-Klosinski

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Mitchell, J., Coker, A. & Yazar-Klosinski, B. Reply to: Caution at psychiatry’s psychedelic frontier and Challenges with benchmarking of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Nat Med 27, 1691–1692 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01526-z

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