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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 …
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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, …
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Anchor lead: Psilocybin may help depression when other therapies fail, Elizabeth Tracey reports A small Johns Hopkins study led by Alan Davis has shown that some people with depression that hasn’t responded to other types of intervention may respond to …
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Anchor lead: Can psilocybin help depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Psilocybin-assisted therapy helped the majority of participants with major depressive disorder experience resolution of their symptoms, a small study led by Alan Davis and colleagues at Johns Hopkins has found. Davis …
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Anchor lead: Adolescent depression rates appear to be increasing, Elizabeth Tracey reports FDA warnings about the danger of antidepressant medicines in adolescents may have made the problem worse, a recent study looking at suicides in this age group found. Karen …
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Anchor lead: An FDA warning may have contributed to depression-related death among the nation’s youth, Elizabeth Tracey reports The FDA warned in 2003 that taking antidepressant medicines might contribute to suicidal thoughts and behaviors among children and adolescents, and required …
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Anchor lead: There are ways to manage anxiety that are less risky than phenibut, Elizabeth Tracey reports Phenibut is a sedative that’s being sold online as a supplement, and it’s increasingly involved in calls to poison control centers, ED visits …
