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‘They broke my mental shackles’: could magic mushrooms be the answer to depression?
New trials have shown the drug psilocybin to be highly effective in treating depression, with Oakland the latest US city to in effect decriminalise it last week. Some researchers say it could become ‘indefensible’ to ignore the evidence – but how would it work as a...
Psychedelic Treatment with Psilocybin Relieves Major Depression, Study Shows
In a small study of adults with major depression, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that two doses of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, given with supportive psychotherapy, produced rapid and large reductions in depressive symptoms, with most participants...
Magic Mushrooms As Medicine? Johns Hopkins Scientists Launch Center For Psychedelic Research. Say Psychedelics Could Treat Alzheimer’s, Depression And Addiction.
Just a few decades ago, the approach would have been unfathomable to many. Using psychedelic drugs to treat people with PTSD? Depression? Addiction? To make them stop smoking? To perhaps treat Alzheimer’s? Wow. Just say no. Weren’t these the drugs we were told growing...
Mushrooms as Medicine? Psychedelics May Be Next Breakthrough Treatment
From treating depression to helping manage alcohol addiction, researchers say legal medical “magic mushrooms” have many potential benefits. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/benefits-of-medical-mushrooms
Graham Hancock: Psychedelics & Civilization
Speaking at Club Imaginal, Brighton. September, 2015.
Paul Stamets: Mushrooms for People and Planet Ancient Allies for Modern Maladies
Paul Stamets, legendary author, mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, gives an informative lecture on mushrooms that aims to deepen the understanding of and respect for organisms that exist literally under every...
6 ways mushrooms can save the world: Paul Stamets
http://www.ted.com Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.
2-Minute Neuroscience: Psilocybin
Psilocybin is a substance found in a number of mushroom species that can be ingested to cause psychoactive effects. Although psilocybin itself is thought to have very little (if any) psychoactive effects, upon ingestion it...
Michael Pollan: Magic mushrooms and LSD could help solve mental health crisis
Could psychedelics cure an anxious mind? Author and journalist Michael Pollan thinks so. He spoke to ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke about his bestseller ‘How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics’. For his...