Psychedelic drugs were a hot topic at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting. Researchers hope the drugs can help people with disorders like depression and PTSD.
A Washington, D.C., resident has an operation growing psilocybin mushrooms. Brain researchers are increasingly studying psychedelic compounds like psilocybin and LSD as potential treatments for anxiety, depression and other disorders.Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images
"In the last couple of years there has been a lot of public excitement about psychedelics," Kwan says."The scientists are catching on now that we just don't know much about what these compounds do." "When we give mice a single dose of psilocybin, we can see those new connections form within a day," Kwan says."And then they can last more than a month," which is the equivalent of many months in a human.
"It can be a quite overwhelming experience to people," Knudsen says."And for that reason, you need to prepare them for that, and you also need to be with them while they are in the experience." Psychedelic research was popular in the 1950s but pretty much ended after the mid-1960s when the drugs were made illegal in the U.S. and Europe.
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