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A group of international clinicians pushing for the medical use of...
ECSTASY pills would be given to Australian bushfire victims, flood survivors and soldiers suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, in a controversial proposal for a clinical trial. Small overseas...
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‘Magic Mushrooms’ Return to Psych Labs 40 Years After Leary
Cancer survivor Lauri Reamer lived in constant dread that her disease would return, until she took a psychedelic drug in a Johns Hopkins University study. The 48-year mother of three was given...
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Magic Mushrooms Trip Up Brain Activity
The active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms decreases brain activity, possibly explaining the vivid, mind-bending effects of the drug, a new study finds. The decreases were focused in regions that...
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Magic mushrooms may help with depression, say leading scientists
Magic mushrooms’ active ingredient psilocybin enables users to experience more vivid recollections. A drug derived from magic mushrooms could help people withdepression by enabling them to relive...
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Scientists Explore Hallucinogen Treatments for PTSD, Sex Abuse Victims
Mind-altering compounds, such as LSD and psilocybin, stirred controversy in the 1960s. As the counter-culture’s psychedelic drugs of choice, the widespread use – and abuse – of hallucinogens prompted...
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Psilocybin ingredient could help treat people with severe depression
Drugs derived from magic mushrooms could help treat people with severe depression. Scientists believe the chemical psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, can turn down parts of the...
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Low Doses of Psilocybin Help Extinguish Conditioned Fear
Researchers have discovered that low doses of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, speed the extinction of the conditioned fear response in mice. The results could pave the way for...
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Psilocybin Mushrooms Promote Growth of New Brain Cells, Can Even Cure PTSD...
Past studies from Imperial College London strongly suggest that psilocybin in “shrooms” can cure depression and PTSD, and now studies from South Florida confirm that “shrooms” and psilocybin are like...
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Physics shows how the mushroom spews its spores
Plants use a variety of methods to spread their seeds, including gravity, forceful ejection, and wind, water, and animal dispersion. But what of the mushrooms, whose spores also need to be strewn far...
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Technicolor Medicine: Magic Mushrooms Can Create New Brain Cells
Hardcore trip enthusiasts have been using psilocybin mushrooms for years in an attempt to gain access to the Technicolor trapdoor into the unknown. Of course, there are also those who just want to...
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