Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Psychedelic therapy in the treatment of addiction: the past, present and future

Rayyan Zafar, Maxim Siegel, Rebecca Harding, Tommaso Barba, Claudio Agnorelli, Shayam Suseelan, et al.
Frontiers in Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2023 87 citations

This paper reviews research on using psychedelic drugs to treat addiction. The authors say scientific and medical interest has grown a lot in the last ten years and that early evidence is starting to show these treatments can be safe and may help with psychiatric problems including addiction. The review…

Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior Psychedelics and Drug Studies

The correlation between resilience and mental health of adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Luo, Shulai, Hu, Jiangtao, Zhang, Junshuai, et al.
www.frontiersin.org Summary & key facts 2025 9 citations

This study pooled data from 19 observational studies with 17,746 adolescents and young adults (ages 10–25) to measure how resilience and mental health are related. The authors found that higher resilience was linked to fewer negative mental-health signs (correlation r = -0.391) and to stronger positive mental-health outcomes (r =…

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Resilience and Mental Health Traumatic Brain Injury Research
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