Category: Mental health

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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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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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