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Study Suggests Psilocybin "Resets" the Brains of Depressed People

posted by martyb on Sunday October 15 2017, @12:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the things-are-looking-up dept.

takyon writes:

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)

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:33AM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday October 15 2017, @01:33AM (#582475) Homepage

    Be sure to call your boss a "punk bitch-ass nigga" on your way out in front of all of his other subordinates.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @03:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @03:09AM (#582489)

    > Be sure to call your boss ...

    When their branch office was closed (~20 people laid off), friends of mine tapped into the paging system and played Johnny Paycheck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIjEauGiRLo [youtube.com]
    The exit-interview crew from the main office didn't know what to do, couldn't find the phone closet.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @03:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @03:38AM (#582504)

    I did better than that - I force him to honour my contract by going to the University's legal team (there were shinnanigans he was trying) and made him pay all my relocation costs back to Australia from the US to get out of it. I ended up saving $6k and leaving a shitty place in victory instead of paying my own way home in debt.

    Seriously, fuck that guy.