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Magic mushrooms & LSD can cure depression
A new study reveals the similarity between the way our brain works while sleeping, and when we’re tripping on psychedelic drugs. What’s more, LSD and magic mushrooms could act as a cure from depression or boost creativity.
With the help of some hallucinogenic drugs and some willing volunteers – someone’s got to suffer for science – an international team of scientists from Germany, the UK and Argentina have published their experimental findings online in the ‘Human Brain Mapping’ journal Wednesday. The study reveals patterns similar to dreaming in the way human brain reacts to hallucinogenic mushrooms, as well as LSD.
The key ingredient of magic mushrooms is the psychedelic chemical psilocybin. Its mind-expanding effects have long attracted scientists’ attention, but it wasn’t until now that physical changes in the brain have been detected.
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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris from Imperial College, London, a co-author of the study, said he was “fascinated” by the results: “People often describe taking psilocybin as producing a dreamlike state and our findings have, for the first time, provided a physical representation for the experience in the brain.”
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/07/magic-mushrooms-lsd-can-cure-depression/
