Psilocybin Offers Fast-Acting Alternative to Traditional Antidepressants
The phase 2 trial found 53% of psilocybin patients were in remission after six weeks, compared with 6% in the placebo group.
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Psilocybin offers fast-acting alternative to traditional antidepressants
A single dose of the psychedelic substance psilocybin can provide rapid relief from depressive symptoms – within just a few days. This is shown by the first randomised, double-blind study in Sweden of psilocybin for depression. The effect persisted for over three months, according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet.
Single dose of psilocybin provides rapid relief from depression in double-blind study
A single dose of the psychedelic substance psilocybin can provide rapid relief from depressive symptoms—within just a few days. This is shown by the first randomized, double-blind study in Sweden of psilocybin for depression. The effect persisted for over three months, according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet.
People with recurrent depression experienced reduced symptoms for several weeks after treatment with psilocybin, in a small Swedish study.
Two days. That's how long it took psilocybin, in a study by the Karolinska Institutet, to reduce the symptoms of depression. Antidepressants require six weeks. Imagine: a whopping 53% of participants were in clinical remission at six weeks, compared to just 6% in the placebo group. Big numbers, until the one-year data arrived, and the story changed a bit. So, let's see: the study, published today in JAMA Network Open, is a Phase 2, randomized, a…
Single Psilocybin Dose Relieves Depression for Over Three Months
Researchers in Sweden report that a single dose of psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in mushrooms, can provide rapid relief from depressive symptoms. Results from a small-scale Phase II trial, published today in JAMA Network Open, show that patients experienced an improvement as soon as two days after treatment, with effects persisting for longer than three months. ”Our results suggest that psilocybin can provide rapid, clinically meanin…
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