Tuesday, 24. January 2012
Topic: DRUGS - on January 24, 2012 at 5:47:00 PM CET
Magic mushrooms may help treat depression: How?
Feeling blue? Two new studies suggest taking a trip might help - but we're not talking vacations.
Tripping on "magic mushrooms" appears to change the brain in ways similar to antidepressants, the study found.
"We're not saying go out there and eat magic mushrooms," Professor David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacology researcher at Imperial College London and senior author of both studies, told Reuters. "But...this drug has such a fundamental impact on the brain that it's got to be meaningful - it's got to be telling us something about how the brain works."
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