{"id":163331,"date":"2023-05-04T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/case-report-magic-mushrooms-may-induce-lasting-improvements-in-color-blind-vision"},"modified":"2023-05-04T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T18:27:17","slug":"case-report-magic-mushrooms-may-induce-lasting-improvements-in-color-blind-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/case-report-magic-mushrooms-may-induce-lasting-improvements-in-color-blind-vision","title":{"rendered":"Case report: Magic mushrooms may induce lasting improvements in color-blind vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/case-report-magic-mushrooms-may-induce-lasting-improvements-in-color-blind-vision3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have authored a case report on the positive effects of psilocybin on color blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journal <i>Drug Science, Policy and Law<\/i>, the researchers highlight some implications surrounding a single reported vision improvement self-study by a colleague and cite other previous reports, illustrating a need to understand better how these psychedelics could be used in therapeutic settings.<\/p>\n<p>Past reports have indicated that people with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/color+vision\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">color vision<\/a> deficiency (CVD), usually referred to as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/color+blindness\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">color blindness<\/a>, experience better color vision after using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or psilocybin (magic mushrooms). There is a lack of scientific evidence for these claims, as researching the effects of these drugs has been highly restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Behavioral Health, Neurological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio have authored a case report on the positive effects of psilocybin on color blindness. Published in the journal Drug Science, Policy and Law, the researchers highlight some implications surrounding a single reported vision improvement self-study [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1496,47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-law","category-neuroscience","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163331","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}