Category: Mental health
A concept known as ‘flourishing’ is changing how mental illness is managed, Elizabeth Tracey reports
How does the concept of flourishing define current mental health practice? Elizabeth Tracey reports
What was required to be part of a recent research study on depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Imagine you have moderate to severe depression. Would you stop taking your medicines to be part of a research study comparing psilocybin to a traditional antidepressant? That was a requirement for participants in a recently reported study, and Matthew Johnson, …
What is needed clinically to use psilocybin to treat depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Psilocybin compared favorably with a traditional antidepressant for treating moderate to severe depression, a recent study found. Matthew Johnson, a psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins, says an entirely different clinical approach will be required to use psilocybin routinely for depression. …
Could psychedelic medicines replace antidepressants? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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For people with depression, sometimes traditional antidepressant medicines simply don’t work. Now psychedelic medicines may be a new choice, if the results of a study comparing psilocybin to escitalopram, an antidepressant, hold up. Matthew Johnson, a psychedelics researcher at Johns …
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Psilocybin compares well with a traditional antidepressant in a group with moderate to severe depression, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Depression can be hard to treat, with even established medicines taking time to be effective and perhaps not helping at all. Now a new study compared the psychedelic drug psilocybin with escitalopram, an established antidepressant, and the results impressed Matthew …