{"id":82832,"date":"2018-09-20T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/octopuses-rolling-on-mdma-reveal-unexpected-link-to-humans"},"modified":"2018-09-20T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:22:42","slug":"octopuses-rolling-on-mdma-reveal-unexpected-link-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/octopuses-rolling-on-mdma-reveal-unexpected-link-to-humans","title":{"rendered":"Octopuses Rolling on MDMA Reveal Unexpected Link to Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octopuses-rolling-on-mdma-reveal-unexpected-link-to-humans.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the California two-spot octopus isn\u2019t attempting to bring more eight-legged cephalopods into this world, it prefers to be alone. Known to scientists as <em>Octopus bimaculoides<\/em>, the alien-like invertebrate spends most of its time hiding from the world or searching for food, asocial males avoiding asocial females until their biological clocks say it\u2019s time to partner up. That is, until they are on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/44414-mdma-ptsd-maps-fda\">MDMA<\/a>. In a groundbreaking study released Thursday, researchers describe how octopuses on the drug act similarly to a socially anxious human on MDMA: They open up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neuroscience.jhu.edu\/research\/faculty\/23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G\u00fcl D\u00f6len, Ph.D.<\/a>, is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of the new <em>Current Biology<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2018.07.061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>. She tells <em>Inverse<\/em> that when octopuses are on MDMA, it\u2019s like watching \u201can eight-armed hug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were very loose,\u201d D\u00f6len says. \u201cThey just embraced with multiple arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49157-mdma-octopus-serotonin-study\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/49157-mdma-octopus-serotonin-study<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the California two-spot octopus isn\u2019t attempting to bring more eight-legged cephalopods into this world, it prefers to be alone. Known to scientists as Octopus bimaculoides, the alien-like invertebrate spends most of its time hiding from the world or searching for food, asocial males avoiding asocial females until their biological clocks say it\u2019s time to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}