{"id":138013,"date":"2022-04-12T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/magic-mushroom-compound-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression"},"modified":"2022-04-12T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:22:54","slug":"magic-mushroom-compound-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/magic-mushroom-compound-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression","title":{"rendered":"Magic mushroom compound increases brain connectivity in people with depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magic-mushroom-compound-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new results, taken from two combined studies, reveal that people who responded to psilocybin-assisted therapy showed increased brain connectivity not just during their treatment, but up to three weeks afterwards. This \u201copening up\u201d effect was associated with self-reported improvements in their depression.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to \u201copen up\u201d depressed people\u2019s brains, even weeks after use, a study has found.<\/p>\n<p>These are the findings of a new analysis of brain scans from close to 60 people receiving treatment for depression, led by Imperial College London\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/psychedelic-research-centre\/\">Centre for Psychedelic Research<\/a>. The team behind the study believes it may have untangled how psilocybin exerts its therapeutic effects on the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin is one of a number of psychedelics being explored as a potential therapy for psychiatric disorders. Several studies have trialled a synthesised form of the drug to treat patients with depression and anxiety, with promising results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new results, taken from two combined studies, reveal that people who responded to psilocybin-assisted therapy showed increased brain connectivity not just during their treatment, but up to three weeks afterwards. This \u201copening up\u201d effect was associated with self-reported improvements in their depression. Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to \u201copen up\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}