Sentences with phrase «of psilocybin mushroom»

Battelle researchers tested his fungal strains against neurotoxins and found one potent variety of psilocybin mushroom highly effective at breaking down VX nerve gas.

Martin: I first made paintings of Psilocybin mushrooms in the 1970s when I was exploring psychedelics.

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Psychedelics like psilocybin, the ingredient found in 200 varieties of mushrooms, are gaining some acceptance in the medical world for treating depression.

«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.

Psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in magic mushrooms, may help re-set the activity of neural circuits in the brain that are involved in depression

Mushrooms that contain the brain - altering compound psilocybin vary widely in terms of their biological lineage and, on the surface, don't appear to have a whole lot in common, he said.

Yet the shroud of negativity lifted under the influence of psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in the hallucinogenic mushrooms used in sacred Native American rituals.

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.

Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, is being explored as a therapeutic tool to improve the lives of people with a life - threatening illness

Researchers have now shown that psilocybin, the bioactive component in the Mexican magic mushroom, influences the amygdala, thereby weakening the processing of negative stimuli (stock image).

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 active ingredient of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, has been shown to reduce anxiety and improve mood in people with cancer.

Researchers at the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich now showed that psilocybin, the active component of the Mexican magic mushrooms, influences these processes in the brain.

Although his passion for mycology was sparked by his own experiences with psilocybin mushrooms as a young man, Stamets no longer advocates casual use of hallucinogens.

Coined in 1956 from the Greek root for «mind revealing,» the term psychedelic refers to a broad range of drugs that includes peyote, LSD, and psilocybin, the primary active ingredient in so - called magic mushrooms.

The UBC Okanagan study found that 42 per cent of U.S. adult male inmates who did not take psychedelic drugs were arrested within six years for domestic battery after their release, compared to a rate of 27 per cent for those who had taken drugs such as LSD, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy).

One of the most reliable — and reversible — ways to alter your sense of self is to ingest psychedelic drugs such as LSD or psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

Coined in 1956 from the Greek roots for «mind revealing,» the term psychedelic refers to a broad range of drugs that include peyote, LSD, and psilocybin, the primary active ingredient in so - called magic mushrooms.

One third of volunteers given psilocybin, the mushroom's active compound, described it as the most spiritually meaningful experience of their lives, and about two thirds rated it in their top five.

In January 2005, with a pair of trained therapists at her side, Sakuda took a pill of psilocybin — a hallucinogen better known as the active ingredient in «magic mushrooms.»

All of the patients were given the compound psilocybin, found in hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Two small studies in this special issue of the Journal of Psychopharmacology looked at the effects of psilocybin, the active compound in what are commonly called magic mushrooms, on patients with advanced cancer who were experiencing depression and anxiety.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and...

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.

Forms repeat across works — some looking like etiolated, psilocybin mushrooms, others mere squiggles — recalling the biomorphic abstraction of mid-twentieth century figures like Arp or Moore or Miro.

Suppose that, rather than being open to any interpretation of the phrase «psychedelics,» the practice of the religion was limited to psilocybin (mushrooms).