Sentences with phrase «also psilocybin»
«I've wanted to do research into the mechanisms underlying LSD — and also psilocybin [the active ingredient in a kind of psychoactive mushroom] and cannabis, since I set up the foundation,» she says.
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Psilocybin allows fungi to interfere with a neurotransmitter in humans and also insects, which are probably their bigger foe.
A dozen human studies of MDMA, LSD, a powerful African drug called ibogaine and psilocybin, from so - called «magic mushrooms,» are now under way, testing the once - stigmatized drugs as treatments for not only PTSD, but also cluster headaches and addiction, as well as anxiety and depression in cancer patients.
These drugs may be used recreationally to purposefully alter one's consciousness (such as coffee, alcohol or cannabis), as entheogens for spiritual purposes (such as the mescaline - containing peyote cactus or psilocybin - containing mushrooms), and also as medication (such as the use of narcotics in controlling pain, stimulants to treat narcolepsy and attention disorders, as well as anti-depressants and anti-psychotics for treating neurological and psychiatric illnesses).
«The counterintuitive finding that extremely difficult experiences can sometimes also be very meaningful experiences is consistent with what we see in our studies with psilocybin — that resolution of a difficult experience, sometimes described as catharsis, often results in positive personal meaning or spiritual significance,» Griffiths says.
(Beug also secured a license from the Drug Enforcement Administration allowing him and his students to work with psilocybin mushrooms.)
They have also done a pilot study on psilocybin as a therapeutic option in individuals with treatment - resistant depression, and are interested in possible roles for psychedelics in combating mental illnesses or addiction.
We are currently studying the effect of LSD on creative thinking and we will also be looking at the possibility that psilocybin may help alleviate symptoms of depression by allowing patients to change their rigidly pessimistic patterns of thinking.
«Previous animal and human brain imaging studies have suggested that psilocybin may have effects similar to other antidepressant treatments,» explained study senior author David Nutt, also of Imperial College London.