As the study points out, it’s interesting that legal status doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with addictiveness or harm. That need for accurate information is what drove British psychiatrist David Nutt to develop scales to assess exactly how dangerous and addictive drugs actually are. The ranking of drugs produced by [this] assessment of harm differed from…
A note about psychedelics and hallucinogens – These terms are often used interchangeably, which can be misleading. Many psychedelics [entheogens and ethnobotanicals] do not cause hallucinations at low doses. Therefore, using the blanket term hallucinogen to describe the effects of all doses of psilocybin [and psilocybin-containing mushrooms/psilocybe mushrooms], for example, is incorrect… Original Article (Psychedelic…
As long as the user is careful and maintains small and infrequent doses, [possible deleterious] side-effects should be minor and should subdue on their own… you would want to steer clear of kratom for a while [if not indefinitely] if the symptoms get worse. Upon careful research, scientists [claim they] have found or at least…
There are a lot of great ways to treat mental health issues without leaving a large carbon footprint. Natural remedies are becoming more popular, especially within the green living community. If you have a sincere commitment to sustainable living, then you will want to find greener alternatives to traditional medicine. Psychedelics can be sustainable options for treating…
In Jackson and Iacono’s analysis, marijuana use and IQ were completely uncorrelated, and IQ measures fell equally in both the users and abstainers. Subsequent twin studies, including one performed with U.K. data by the Dunedin team, corroborated these findings of no relationship between marijuana use and a falling IQ. Next, investigators uncovered shared underlying vulnerability factors that explained…
[In the 1950’s and 60’s] psychedelics were of little interest to pharmaceutical companies as the intervention seemed to treat illness, rather than alleviate symptoms. Consequently, the financial imperatives were lacking; fully recovered patients would not require continued medication… Sandoz was reluctant to share such proprietary and patented data (Bonson, 2018). When required by the FDA, the company…
Some participants in studies using pure, synthetic psilocybin report nausea as a side effect of their treatment. This points the finger at [synthetic] psilocybin as a possible cause of nausea… Also, because the body quickly converts psilocybin to its active form psilocin, this suggests that psilocin may play a role in nausea. Original Article (Psychedelic…
In contrast to the primary hypothesis, psychedelics had no long-lasting effects on the ADE (alcohol deprivation effect) in male and female rats… …when administered in a high dosage regime that is comparable to the one used in clinical studies… Original Article (Nature):Psilocybin and LSD have no long-lasting effects in an animal model of alcohol relapseArtwork…
…human intervention further altered the habitat of the Amazon-Cerrado toads. One could hypothesize that this disturbance could not only affect the habitat, and thus the available food, but it may also put stress on the toads… This stress could conceivably cause them to produce different combinations and amounts of compounds in their secretions by way…
This work has shown that the new dynamic model of the whole brain is capable of addressing one of the major challenges in neuroscience: to explain the paradoxical flexibility of brain function despite having a fixed anatomical structure. An international team of researchers has developed a computational biophysical model of the entire brain that integrates…
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