USF researchers find magic mushrooms may help with PTSD
Magic mushrooms, those cultural symbols of trippy hippie awareness, may be in for a new reputation.
Researchers from the University of South Florida have discovered that low doses of the psychedelic drug may help treat people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and addictions. It was a shroomy, serendipitous discovery they didn’t set out to find.
It started with psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient found in certain mushrooms. Juan Sanchez-Ramos, a professor of neurology at USF, wanted to see how the substance affected short-term memory and learning. Sanchez-Ramos and his colleagues thought it might speed learning, maybe one day helping people who, for instance, had lost cognitive function to chemotherapy.
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