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An fMRI study has found evidence of a reduction in depressive symptoms after treatment with psilocybin:
A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can "reset" the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest.
The small study gave 19 patients a single dose of the psychedelic ingredient psilocybin. Half of patients ceased to be depressed and experienced changes in their brain activity that lasted about five weeks.
However, the team at Imperial College London says people should not self-medicate.
There has been a series of small studies suggesting psilocybin could have a role in depression by acting as a "lubricant for the mind" that allows people to escape a cycle of depressive symptoms. But the precise impact it might be having on brain activity was not known.
Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression: fMRI-measured brain mechanisms (open, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13282-7) (DX)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:15AM (9 children)
I think Government types are mostly concerned with psychedelics infiltrating things like the water supply - with such tiny doses having such dramatic effects, a one gallon jug dumped in a lake could be a serious problem.
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(Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:20AM (6 children)
Or things like people on psychedelics freaking out and murdering innocent people... you know shit that normal people are concerned about.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=high%20on%20mushrooms%20kills [google.com]
(Score: 5, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 15 2017, @05:32AM (4 children)
Oh, hey, Reefer Madness [wikipedia.org] style propaganda has been put out on every schedule 1 drug in almost every media channel available.
I think the junkies on Meth, PCP, and desperate to score their next rock of crack/push of H are a bigger concern than LSD users and the like - but, it's all relative, and thanks to propaganda the public's perception has no correlation with reality - but that's what's going to be addressed: the perception of problems.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @06:51AM (2 children)
Yeah it's propaganda. [deadspin.com] Not shit that actually happens. Fake news, huh? Yeah and I'm sure the headline makes it sound a lot worse than it actually was.
You have something missing in your cortex if you thing people should ever be allowed to take shit that makes you do these type of things. Or you could just be deceptively evil.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:05AM
People do this same type of shit on alcohol. Or without drugs because they are just psychotic to begin with.
If there is such a thing as responsible alcohol use, there is responsible mushroom use. Millions have done it without murdering their friends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @09:56AM
Look, let's keep it real, if we really cared about collateral damage we'd do something about guns. But no, that's our precious Freedom(tm) and this is teh bad drugs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 16 2017, @01:29AM
Be careful of not being a self-seeker. A century or so ago, would you have been on the British side in the Opium wars?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday October 15 2017, @09:56AM
Chantix occasionally causes things like that too, but nobody in government seems too concerned about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:59AM (1 child)
Won't somebody think of the fish!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:18PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWSzv7ESJY [youtube.com]