Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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1 paper

Psychedelic therapy and postpartum depression: priorities and prospects

Guillaume Thuery, Frank Crossen, Daniel Mc Loone, Catherine Hinds, R. T. Duffy, Chaitra Jairaj, et al.

This paper is a review that looks at whether drugs called serotonergic psychedelics might help with postpartum depression, which affects about 15% of women after pregnancy. The authors bring together what we know about the body systems linked to postpartum depression and how these psychedelics can affect those systems and…

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