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This article gives health care professionals a plain overview of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy. It summarizes how psilocybin and its active form psilocin work in the brain, how the body absorbs and clears them, practical issues for dosing and monitoring, legal and access changes, and safety concerns for medically complex patients. The…
This paper is a position review that looks at three drugs—SSRIs (a common antidepressant), psilocybin (a psychedelic), and MDMA—and how they change brain circuits that use serotonin. The authors note that all three are already used or being tested as treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They say we still…
