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How Magic Mushrooms Can Change Your Brain Forever


New research advances efforts to harness drug's mind-altering power to treat mental illness. A new study demonstrates that psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, affects the brain by temporarily altering critical introspective networks, which can lead to profound psychological transfor

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