Psilocybin

Psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms, are a polyphyletic informal group of fungi that contain psilocybin which turns into psilocin upon ingestion.

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Clinical Trial Finds Psilocybin Increases Emotional Empathy in Patients With Major Depression

Psychedelics, Especially Psilocybin and LSD, Show Promise for Easing Depression and Anxiety in Terminally Ill Patients, Study Finds

Clinical Trial Finds Psilocybin Effective at Combatting COVID-19-Related Depression in Healthcare Workers

Clinical Trials Show Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Outperforms Standard Treatments for Depression

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Reduces Anxiety, Depression, and Other Psychiatric Symptoms in Cancer Patients

Study: Psilocybin Reduces Brain Damage and Aids Recovery in Stroke Animal Model

Psilocybin boosts mind perception but doesn't reduce atheism

Study shows psilocybin gives comparable long-term antidepressant effects to standard antidepressants

A new study of athletes and sports staff found "a high level of receptiveness" to "using and supporting [psilocybin-assisted therapy] for concussion recovery given evidence that it is beneficial."

Top federal health official highlights ‘growing evidence’ psilocybin can treat addiction, depression and more

Scientists Reveal What Your Brain Looks Like on Psilocybin

Study Finds Psilocybin Offers Significant Relief for Advanced Cancer Patients

Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network - EurekAlert

Psilocybin desynchronizes the human brain (2024)

Psilocybin generates psychedelic experience by disrupting brain network

Your brain on shrooms — how psilocybin resets neural networks. The psychedelic drug causes changes that last weeks to the communication pathways that connect distinct brain regions.

Psilocybin temporarily dissolves brain networks

Magic Mushrooms and the Mind: Psilocybin’s Hyperconnected Brain State Linked to Therapeutic Effects

How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain

Decoding Psilocybin: “Magical” Enzymatic Pathways to Psychiatric Breakthroughs