{"id":149365,"date":"2022-11-02T23:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/severe-depression-eased"},"modified":"2022-11-06T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T06:08:55","slug":"severe-depression-eased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/severe-depression-eased","title":{"rendered":"Severe depression eased by single dose of synthetic \u2018magic mushroom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/severe-depression-eased2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in people with a treatment-resistant form of the disease, a new study found.<\/p>\n<p>The randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which authors called \u201cthe largest of its kind,\u201d compared results of a 25-milligram dose to a 10-milligram and 1-milligram dose of a synthetic psilocybin, COMP360, that was administered in the presence of trained therapists.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the study, published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, found \u201can immediate, fast, rapid-acting, sustained response to 25 milligrams (of COMP360),\u201d said study coauthor Dr. Guy Goodwin, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A single treatment of synthetic psilocybin, the mind-altering ingredient in magic mushrooms, improved mood in people with treatment-resistant depression within three weeks, new company-sponsored research found.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/severe-depression-eased\">Continue reading \u201cSevere depression eased by single dose of synthetic \u2018magic mushroom\u2019\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u2014 A single dose of a synthetic version of the mind-altering component of magic mushrooms, psilocybin, improved depression in people with a treatment-resistant form of the disease, a new study found. The randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which authors called \u201cthe largest of its kind,\u201d compared results of a 25-milligram dose to a 10-milligram and [\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-149365","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\/149365","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=149365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149554,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149365\/revisions\/149554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}