The trip itself might play a vital role.
A psychedelic drug called psilocybin, which shows up naturally in some mushrooms, has shown signs of increasing durable connections between neurons in mouse brains, according to a new studyIn other words, the damage depression does to your brain might be reversible with psychedelic mushrooms, and scientists think the trip itself could play a vital role.
In collaboration Ling-Xiao Shao, a postdoctoral associate of Yale's School of Medicine, Kwan employed a laser-scanning microscope to create high-resolution images of dendritic spines in living mice, and track them for several days. The duo observed rising numbers and girth of dendritic spines on the first day following exposure to psilocybin.
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