A mushroom that resets the brain/a new treatment for treatment-resistant depression?
Neurosafari According to scientists, the hallucinogenic substance in the magic mushroom has the ability to “reset” the brains of people with incurable depression.
According to the report of Neurosafari, quoted by the Guardian, this discovery has increased the hope for the treatment of depression. In a limited study conducted by a team of researchers at Imperial College London, 19 patients with depression were given doses of the psychoactive substance psilocybin. In about half of these patients, immediate improvement and changes in their brain activity were reported, which lasted for about five weeks.
Of course, this research team emphasized that people should not resort to self-medication.
More extensive research is needed before psilocybin can be accepted as a treatment for depression, according to the team.
A small amount of research has already been done on this subject, which showed that psilocybin can affect the brain and give people with depression a chance to break the cycle of symptoms associated with this disease.
But the exact effect that this substance can have on brain activity was unclear.
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The Imperial College London research team scanned the brains of depressed patients before psilocybin treatment and a day after the patients regained their “consciousness” via MRI.
According to Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of the research team at Imperial College, the brain of depressed people “refuses to speak and respond” and this substance “rewires” it.
Dr. Carhart-Harris told the BBC: “Patients used such analogies. I was re-adjusted, re-born, re-started. And one of the patients said that his brain was destroyed and now it is clean.
However, this research was done on a small group and did not include a group of healthy people whose brain scans could be compared with sick people.
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