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    Psilocybin 'Rewires' the Brain to Alleviate Depression

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      Meghomay last edited by

      New research points to a general mechanism that may explain how psychedelics act on the brain to alleviate depression and potentially other psychiatric conditions marked by fixed patterns of thinking, including rumination and excessive self-focus. Led by investigators from the University of California San Francisco and Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, the findings come from a new analysis of brain scans of almost 60 patients with resistant depression treated with psilocybin

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        Natasha P @Meghomay last edited by

        @meghomay This research is a major advance because it is showing replication across two datasets with different designs. One in which the scanning is done 1 day after intervention and the other one when the posttreatment scanning is done 3 weeks after the second of two psilocybin therapy sessions

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