Posted on 10/13/2017 5:48:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, showed psilocybin affected two key areas of the brain. The amygdala - which is heavily involved in how we process emotions such as fear and anxiety - became less active. The greater the reduction, the greater the improvement in reported symptoms.
The default-mode network - a collaboration of different brain regions - became more stable after taking psilocybin.
Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, head of psychedelic research at Imperial, said the depressed brain was being "clammed up" and the psychedelic experience "reset" it.
He told the BBC News website: "Patients were very ready to use this analogy. Without any priming they would say, 'I've been reset, reborn, rebooted', and one patient said his brain had been defragged and cleaned up."
However, this remains a small study and had no "control" group of healthy people with whom to compare the brain scans.
Further, larger studies are still needed before psilocybin could be accepted as a treatment for depression.
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Memories.
Going to be really hard to do a placebo based double blinded study on this one
Sign me up. I am so many years out of college that mushrooms are almost impossible to obtain. And I would ohh so love to do a yearly camping trip deep deep deep in the desert on a nice 85 degree night, 40 miles from the nearest humans.
Ate some ‘shrooms and went to the batting cages once and could hit the shit outta the ball...The fast pitches were a bitch at first but eventually, it became easier to put the ball on the bat.
“Memories.”
Yeah, from a long time ago. Had mushrooms twice and LSD twice. Didn’t care for them, but I did have an adventure every time. Not worth the risk.
“Sign me up. I am so many years out of college that mushrooms are almost impossible to obtain. And I would ohh so love to do a yearly camping trip deep deep deep in the desert on a nice 85 degree night, 40 miles from the nearest humans.”
I do not know if you’d want to trip out on ‘shrooms in certain parts of Arizona. The Sonoran desert is full of jumping cholla cactus which is nasty stuff. It would be a tragedy to wander through a patch of it while tripping. Trust me, you’d only do it once.
I got places here in Nevada that I frequent. Dry lakes that you can walk backwards staring at the stars with no fear of falling. No critters, no bugs, darkest place where you can see your shadow cast by the milky way....not a single unnatural source of light. The most colorful sunsets and sunrises in the world. It is not like arizona at all
I’ll bring my headlamps and flashlights. Don’t let the know-it-all worry wart poop on the fun.
Never did shrooms, but mescaline wasn’t much different from acid.
What was the mescaline like physically? Solid, liquid?
It’s been too long ago. I don’t remember.
“No critters, no bugs, darkest place where you can see your shadow cast by the milky way....”
I have to see that someday ... that sounds beyond incredible.
Shrooms were legal here in Japan until around 2004 . For me , taken in small doses , after work for example , they were the perfect “ high “ . I felt more at peace with myself and the world , smiled a lot more lol , but at the same time was totally alert / functional / etc...There was one time in Tokyo , though , when a friend and I did a few too many and ended up laughing all the way from Shinjuku in Tokyo , on a crowded late evening train mind you , to my pal’s place in Kanagawa - a 45 minute ride ! ^_^
Time appears to slow down, so in theory seeing fastballs should be easier. Could probably count the stitches.
Someone thought it would be funny to give me mushroom koolaid in the summer between high school and college.
After I stopped freaking out, I vividly remember being so clear about life in general and my future.
I would never do it again, and didn’t do it willingly, but it did sort of trigger an “I can do this” vibe in my mind.
I had to meet my dad at church the next morning and I can tell you this: when the hellfire and brimstone preachers is flailing his arms around and you are still seeing trails, you just have to enjoy it, or else it would make you crazy.
That sounds like a blast.
Pure BS. More psychiatric snake oil. These birds still shock brains and stick ice picks in them and call it “treatment”.
Mushroom koolaid? It must have tasted awful. I think standard procedure in my time was to choke down those awful tasting things, and wash it down with whatever it took to get rid of that taste.
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