Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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3 papers

Serotonergic Psychedelics in Neural Plasticity

Kacper Łukasiewicz, Jacob J. Baker, Yi Zuo, Ju Lu

This review explains that classical serotonergic psychedelics — drugs like psilocybin, DMT (in ayahuasca), LSD, and ibogaine — can change brain cells and connections in lab and animal studies. These drugs have been shown to help neurons grow new branches and form more synapses, which are the contact points where…

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

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

Life Gets Better: Important Resilience Factors When Growing Up With ADHD

Cecilie Dangmann, Gunhild K. W. Skogli, Mira Elise Glaser Holthe, Anne Kjersti Myhrene Steffenak, P. Andersen

Growing up with ADHD was associated with both challenges and positives, but the main resilience theme was that life gets better. A variety of resilience factors contributed to this, but relational and environmental factors seemed particularly important. Acceptance, both from society and self-acceptance, were related to all resilience factors in…

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Traumatic Brain Injury Research
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