Psychidelic Medicine: worth the trip? (Slideshow - free registration)
Psychedelic compounds have been used medicinally for millennia. Ancient Chinese, African, and South American healers prescribed them for various primarily psychiatric ailments, as did early Ayurvedic practitioners in India and possibly far older prehistoric cultures. One recent study[1] cites the possible influence of psychedelics on 40,000-year-old Paleolithic cave art. Despite extensive early 20th century interest in hallucinogens as therapy, modern medicine mostly abandoned research into their therapeutic potential, as governments worldwide criminalized agents such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline in reaction to their counterculture use in the 1960s. But scattered clinical curiosity over the years and a recent renewed interest in psychedelic treatments have hallucinogens again emerging as possible psychiatric therapies, or at least as pharmacologic leads on related and potentially helpful compounds. Medscape
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Tampa Bay newspaper discusses how psilocybin has the potential to treat PTSD
USF research may lead to PTSD treatment
Research into the growth of neurons in the brains of mice at the University of South Florida has led to an unexpected finding: Psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient of certain mushrooms, might one day help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sanchez-Ramos speculates that perhaps very low doses of psilocybin might help soldiers, for example, recover from PTSD. Consider how a loud unexpected noise such as a car backfiring might trigger an anxiety episode; might the chemical help that person un-learn the behavior?
The recent USF study:
Effects of psilocybin on hippocampal neurogenesis and extinction of trace fear conditioning (PDF)
Sanchez-Ramos, M.D., Ph.D talk at MAPS:
Psilocybin Research - Zeno Sanchez-Ramos - Part 1 of 2
Psilocybin Research - Zeno Sanchez-Ramos - Part 2 of 2
Research into the growth of neurons in the brains of mice at the University of South Florida has led to an unexpected finding: Psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient of certain mushrooms, might one day help treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sanchez-Ramos speculates that perhaps very low doses of psilocybin might help soldiers, for example, recover from PTSD. Consider how a loud unexpected noise such as a car backfiring might trigger an anxiety episode; might the chemical help that person un-learn the behavior?
The recent USF study:
Effects of psilocybin on hippocampal neurogenesis and extinction of trace fear conditioning (PDF)
Sanchez-Ramos, M.D., Ph.D talk at MAPS:
Psilocybin Research - Zeno Sanchez-Ramos - Part 1 of 2
Psilocybin Research - Zeno Sanchez-Ramos - Part 2 of 2
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