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Researchers reveal how psychedelic drugs reopen critical periods for socia
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Neuroscientists have long sought techniques to reactivate critical periods in the brain, when animals are more receptive to environmental cues that might alter brain development. According to a recent study in mice conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine, psychedelic substances are related by th
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Research: Psychedelics may diminish one's fear of death and dying
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Baltimore [US], August 25 (ANI): Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine compared psychedelic experiences with non-drug-related near-death experiences in a survey study of more than 3,000 persons and discovered striking similarities in people's views toward death. Both groups of survey respo
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One psychedelic experience may lessen trauma of racial injustice
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): A single positive experience on a psychedelic drug may help reduce stress, depression and anxiety symptoms in Black, Indigenous and people of colour whose encounters with racism have had lasting harm, a new study suggests.
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Psychedelic drugs can aid PTSD patients, suggests experts
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
South Carolina [USA], Jan 19 (ANI): A new treatment of Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggests usage of psychedelic drugs which are more commonly known as Psychedelic drugs.
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Psychedelic drugs show promise for treating PTSD
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
South Carolina [USA], Jan 19 (ANI): The use of medically administered psychedelics has displayed its efficacy in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Recent clinical trials suggest that a treatment approach involving the medicinal use of psychedelic substances can better treat thi
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Psychedelic drugs effective in treating PTSD
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
South Carolina [USA], Jan 19 (ANI): A team of researchers has identified that adapting to a treatment approach that involves the medicinal use of psychedelics, could prove to be more beneficial in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Magic mushrooms may discourage people from committing crimes
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 24 (ANI): People using magic mushrooms, lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD, which is a powerful hallucinogenic drug and mescaline (a substance derived from the peyote cactus) are less likely to engage in criminal offences and anti-social behaviour.
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