Month: May 2021
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 …
How does a psychedelic drug compare with an antidepressant for the treatment of depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Can the psychedelic drug psilocybin be used to treat depression? That possibility was examined in a recent study comparing psilocybin to escitalopram, an established antidepressant, in people with moderate to severe depression. Matthew Johnson, a psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins, …