{"id":212794,"date":"2025-04-29T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magic-mushrooms-show-promise-for-improving-motor-function-and-mood-in-parkinsons-patients"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:15:32","slug":"magic-mushrooms-show-promise-for-improving-motor-function-and-mood-in-parkinsons-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/magic-mushrooms-show-promise-for-improving-motor-function-and-mood-in-parkinsons-patients","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magic mushrooms\u2019 show promise for improving motor function and mood in Parkinson\u2019s patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magic-mushrooms-show-promise-for-improving-motor-function-and-mood-in-parkinsons-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin, a natural compound found in certain mushrooms, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety. UC San Francisco researchers wanted to know if it could be used to help Parkinson\u2019s patients who often experience debilitating mood dysfunction in addition to their motor symptoms and don\u2019t respond well to antidepressants or other medications.<\/p>\n<p>The results were surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did participants tolerate the drug without <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/serious+side+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">serious side effects<\/a> or worsening symptoms, which is what the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pilot+study\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pilot study<\/a> was designed to test, they also experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/motor+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">motor function<\/a> that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psilocybin, a natural compound found in certain mushrooms, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety. UC San Francisco researchers wanted to know if it could be used to help Parkinson\u2019s patients who often experience debilitating mood dysfunction in addition to their motor symptoms and don\u2019t respond well to antidepressants or other medications. The results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212794","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\/212794","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=212794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}