Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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2 papers

Midlife as a pivotal period in the life course

Margie E. Lachman, Salom M. Teshale, Stefan Agrigoroaei

Using long-term data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study, the authors show that physical health, thinking skills, and well-being in midlife can change in different directions for different people. They describe these changes as multidirectional (some things get better, some worse), variable between people, and plastic (open…

Aging and Gerontology Research Health disparities and outcomes Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period

Romain Nardou, Edward J. Sawyer, Young Jun Song, M. F. Wilkinson, Yasmin Padovan‐Hernandez, Júnia L. de Deus, et al.
Nature Summary & key facts 2023 303 citations

Researchers gave different psychedelic drugs to mice and found the drugs could reopen a window of brain plasticity used for learning social rewards. This reopened window went along with changes in a social hormone system in a key reward area of the brain and with changes in genes that control…

Chemical synthesis and alkaloids Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior Psychedelics and Drug Studies Psilocybin
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