[ExI] 'Magic mushroom' compound may work just as well as antidepressants, small study finds

[Nuala Thomson]

Micro dosing has been around for ages. I think LSD yields similar results
and micro dosing mdma has helped couples/marriages.
The problem is getting this sort of therapy approved as mainstream and more
providers able to administer it.
Regardless, I'm definitely not adverse to a "reset" once or twice a year.
I think it's beneficial even outside of a therapy session as I find it
helps with my own spirituality and exploration.

On Fri., Apr. 16, 2021, 21:57 John Grigg via extropy-chat, <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> "Psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in "magic mushrooms," may work just as
> well as a common antidepressant drug at treating symptoms of depression, a
> small new study suggests.
>
> The study found that people who took psilocybin twice under the
> supervision of psychiatrists showed similar reductions in *depression*
> <https://www.livescience.com/34718-depression-treatment-psychotherapy-anti-depressants.html>
> symptoms — based on scores on a survey — compared with people who took a
> six-week course of the antidepressant escitalopram. And those in the
> psilocybin group were more likely to report remission from depression
> symptoms, compared with those in the escitalopram group, according to the
> study, published Wednesday (April 14) in *The New England Journal of
> Medicine* <http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032994>.
>
> "One of the most important aspects of this work is that people can clearly
> see the promise of properly delivered psilocybin therapy by viewing it
> compared with a more familiar, established treatment in the same study,"
> study lead author Robin Carhart-Harris, head of the Centre for Psychedelic
> Research at Imperial College London, *said in a statement*
> <https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2021-04/icl-mmc041321.php>.
> "Psilocybin performed very favourably in this head-to-head [trial]."
>
>
> https://www.livescience.com/psilocybin-versus-antidepressants-magic-mushrooms.html
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