{"id":138109,"date":"2022-04-14T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psilocybin-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression-after-use"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:24:20","slug":"psilocybin-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression-after-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/psilocybin-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression-after-use","title":{"rendered":"Psilocybin Increases Brain Connectivity in People With Depression After Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psilocybin-increases-brain-connectivity-in-people-with-depression-after-use.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: People with depression who responded to psilocybin therapy showed an increase in brain connectivity for up to three weeks following treatment. The increased brain connectivity was correlated with self-reported improvements in depression symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to \u201copen up\u201d depressed people\u2019s brains, even after use, enabling brain regions to talk more freely to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: People with depression who responded to psilocybin therapy showed an increase in brain connectivity for up to three weeks following treatment. The increased brain connectivity was correlated with self-reported improvements in depression symptoms. Source: Imperial College London. Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, helps to \u201copen up\u201d depressed people\u2019s brains, even after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138109","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}