by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 11, 2022 | Psychedelic Research
High-dose psilocybin produced large decreases in clinician- and self-rated measures of depressed mood and anxiety, along with increases in quality of life, life meaning, and optimism, and decreases in death anxiety. At 6-month follow-up, these changes were sustained,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 11, 2022 | Psychedelic Research
Improvement in LSAS scores from baseline to the primary endpoint was significantly greater for MDMA group compared to the placebo group (P = 0.037), and placebo-subtracted Cohen’s d effect size was very large (d = 1.4, CI − 0.074, 2.874). Change in LSAS scores from...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 5, 2022 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, Cannabis Marijuana, CBC, Chronic Pain, Cluster Headaches, Depression, DMT, Iboga, Kambo, LSD, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Microdosing, Neuropathy, NN-Dimethyltryptamine, OCD, Pain, Parkinson's Disease, Psilocybin Magic Mushroom, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychedelic Research, Psychotropics, PTSD, San Pedro Mescaline
Max Weber – The disenchantment of modern life. He believed that since the Enlightenment, science and reason had eroded the sway of religion, spirituality, superstition and magic such that transcendent values had become increasingly unavailable to many,...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Aug 4, 2022 | Addiction, Anxiety, Ayahuasca, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Pain, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Psychedelic Medicine, Psychotropics
Serotonin is one of the chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that carry signals between brain nerve cells (neurons). SSRIs block the reabsorption (reuptake) of serotonin into neurons. This makes more serotonin available to improve transmission of messages between...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 21, 2022 | Addiction, MDMA Sassafras Molly, Psychedelic Medicine
For decades, psychedelics have evoked a freewheeling past, calling to mind images of hippie counterculture and swirly neon patterns. Recently, however, psychedelics have become synonymous with serious, forward-looking science. Researchers at renowned institutions are...
