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<p><font size="4">"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.</font></p><p><font size="4">The study found that people who took psilocybin twice under the supervision of psychiatrists showed similar reductions in <a href="https://www.livescience.com/34718-depression-treatment-psychotherapy-anti-depressants.html" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed"><u>depression</u></a>
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 <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032994" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed"><u>The New England Journal of Medicine</u></a>.</font></p><p><font size="4">"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, <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2021-04/icl-mmc041321.php" class="gmail-hawk-link-parsed"><u>said in a statement</u></a>. "Psilocybin performed very favourably in this head-to-head [trial]."</font></p><font size="4">
</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/psilocybin-versus-antidepressants-magic-mushrooms.html">https://www.livescience.com/psilocybin-versus-antidepressants-magic-mushrooms.html</a></font></div></div>