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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @06:54PM (#582707)

    No, it is because it was a profound experience and something reminded the person about it.

    The smells of cooking from around the holidays can do it too -- or music.

    flashbacks from latent drugs in the system is just urban legend. if you have some actual citation of someone that actually provided a fluid or fat sample, or a donor cadaver that had enough to cause this, please post your links. the saving of urine due to amanaita muscaria varieities not breaking down is definitely not applicable to psilocybin mushrooms, nor lsd, or morning glory seeds or marijuana or... lots of things you might have a friend tell you in high school.

    what you say is what gets believed by people like jeff sessions who just want to ban it all because maybe it can be bad 10 years later while you are driving and you will kill a car full of kittens on their way back from a church fundraiser. stating that drugs not being broken down and causing flashbacks is irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst.

    next you'll tell us you have a 25 pound wad of chewing gum in your abdomen because it doesn't get digested and somehow never is excreted?