The psychedelic compound, psilocybin, improves mood compared to other traditional drugs. Furthermore, it works differently compared to conventional antidepressants, making the brain more flexible and fluid, and less entrenched in the negative thinking patterns associated with depression.
Magic mushrooms have a “liberating effect” on the depressed mind, according to new research published in the journal Nature Medicine Monday, which considers how the psychedelic compound psilocybin improves mood compared to traditional drugs, and why it seems to work so much better.
For the first time we find that psilocybin works differently from conventional antidepressants — making the brain more flexible and fluid, and less entrenched in the negative thinking patterns associated with depression