Posted on 09/24/2024 12:29:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
Psilocybin could help people suffering from a mental health problem that can lead to eating disorders, a new study suggests.
Psilocybin, the active chemical in "magic" mushrooms, significantly reduced symptoms in people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Psychedelics.
BDD causes an obsessive preoccupation with perceived flaws in one's physical appearance, and is frequently tied to eating disorders and other unhealthy behaviors, researchers said.
For this pilot trial, eight people with hard-to-treat BDD received a single 25-milligram dose of psilocybin.
Brain scans showed that the psilocybin treatment increased levels in connectivity between different brain regions related to emotional processing, cognitive activity and feelings and thoughts about oneself.
People who had the greatest strengthening in these connections experienced the most improvement in their BDD symptoms within a week, results show.
The findings "align with a growing body of evidence indicating that psychedelic compounds like psilocybin can promote mental health by enhancing the brain's capacity for flexibility and integration," concluded the research team led by Chen Zhang, a research assistant with the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
"By facilitating communication within and between brain networks that are often dysregulated in psychiatric disorders, psilocybin may help restore more adaptive cognitive and emotional functioning," the research team said in a journal news release.
However, more studies in larger groups of people with BDD are needed to verify the effectiveness of the treatment and how long it will last, the researchers noted.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine has more on psilocybin therapy.
But if you take shrooms, you could very well cause yourself to have schizophrenia.
Sure didn't help that airline pilot.
We had a friend (son of a senator) who went from a world/ class leading university to the insane asylum
From psilocybin.
World’s largest cheesecake probably effective also.
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Or it could just create a lot of stoned skinny people.
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Your comment is rhetorical.
With many schizophrenics randomly scattered amongst them.
{snicker}
How about old folks homes?
No but marijuana will. 😆
Expecting some shroom news this fall. The pushers of the measure will be pushing.
Shrooms are on the MA ballot (Q#4). Any other states?
These studies and claims have going in for more than 60 years now.
All bs.
Jim Ignatowski comes to mind.
“..curb mental illness...”
What is a bigger mental illness that can be helped with psilocybin, an eating disorder or a trans freak who thinks he can actually change his sex to a female after getting his testicles cut off? /s
A number of people have been helped by mushrooms, but I think it’s only when they are micro-dosed. That makes sense to me.
The 25 mg dose used in research definitely isn’t a micro-dose; it is more like a moderate dose when compared to recreational use which might be 50.
Never, ever, again. And yes, you can be a walking mess if you don't have a sane mind going down that Rabbit hole.
This ain't the 70's near a cow pasture. Today they cultivate them in laboratory conditions with carefully developed strains. I would not recommend it for most.
"Fragile" by YES will do that. But some folk have bad trips and get cranky from the high/whiny voice and plucky/tinny guitar fiddling.
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