{"id":158229,"date":"2023-02-16T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/psychedelic-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:22:17","slug":"psychedelic-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/psychedelic-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelic spurs growth of neural connections lost in depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychedelic-spurs-growth-of-neural-connections-lost-in-depression.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in \u201cmagic mushrooms,\u201d given to mice prompted a long-lasting increase in the connections between neurons.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, Yale researchers show that a single dose of psilocybin given to mice prompted an immediate and long-lasting increase in connections between neurons. The findings are published July 5 in the journal Neuron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in \u201cmagic mushrooms,\u201d given to mice prompted a long-lasting increase in the connections between neurons. In a new study, Yale researchers show that a single dose of psilocybin given to mice prompted an immediate and long-lasting increase in connections between neurons. The findings are published July 5 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158229","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=158229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}