Psilocybin Mushrooms May Help Treat Depression?

Hard to imagine but curious, indeed! Bloomberg News (1/24, Kitamura) reports, “In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 30 healthy volunteers took psilocybin intravenously and had their brains observed with magnetic resonance imaging scanners” and found that “activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, which is hyperactive in depression, was consistently lowered,” according to study researchers David Nutt and Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College London. In “a second study, to be published Jan. 26 in the British Journal of Psychiatry and conducted by the same researchers…psilocybin enhanced volunteers’ recollections of positive personal memories, compared with those who took a placebo.” “Prof Nutt believes that the drug could be used as an antidepressant and has…
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