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A dream-like 🌈 psychedelic 🧠 might help traumatized veterans 🪖 reset their brains 🧠 - Researchers found that soldiers who reported profound feelings of unity 🤝 and sacredness 🙏 while taking ibogaine 🌿 experienced lasting relief from post-traumatic stress disorder 🧠.
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PsyPost
A dream-like psychedelic might help traumatized veterans reset their brains
Scientists have linked the subjective intensity of ibogaine trips to tangible recovery in veterans. Those who felt a sense of unity and sacredness showed larger drops in trauma symptoms and slower brain wave frequencies one month later.
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Long-term antidepressant effects of psilocybin linked to functional brain changes - a single dose of psilocybin altered the electrical properties of brain cells in rats for months, even after physical changes to the neurons had disappeared.
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Nature
Psychedelics produce enduring behavioral effects and functional plasticity through mechanisms independent of structural plasticity
Neuropsychopharmacology - Psychedelics produce enduring behavioral effects and functional plasticity through mechanisms independent of structural plasticity
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https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514090-psychedelic-causes-similar-brain-state-in-spiritual-lama-as-meditation/
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New Scientist
Psychedelic causes similar brain state in spiritual lama as meditation
The psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT seemed to induce similar patterns of brain activity in a lama - a revered spiritual teacher in Tibetan Buddhism - as meditation, advancing our understanding of the drug's neurological effects
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Recreational ecstasy use is linked to lasting memory impairments. A new analysis indicates that people who use the drug recreationally perform worse on cognitive tests than those who have never used it.
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PsyPost
Recreational ecstasy use is linked to lasting memory impairments
A new systematic review suggests that recreational ecstasy users suffer from verbal memory impairments that do not improve even after months or years of quitting the drug.