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Single Psilocybin Dose Provides Rapid Relief From Depression, Small Clinical Trial Finds

MONDAY, May 18, 2026 — Just a single dose of psilocybin can provide rapid relief from depression, a new small-scale clinical trial has shown. Within a week, people treated with one...

Psilocybin Unlocks Lost Memories in an Alzheimer’s Patient

A new study demonstrates that a single dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms temporarily restored spontaneous speech, motor independence, and urinary continence in an 80-year-old...

Natural hallucinogens may have evolved as ecological tools, not chemical accidents

Natural hallucinogens, such as psilocybin, mescaline, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and related compounds, have generally received attention for their effects on human perception, e...

Natural Hallucinogens: Evolution’s Ecological Tools, Not Mere Chemical Byproducts

Natural hallucinogens—psychoactive compounds such as psilocybin, mescaline, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT)—have long captured human fascination due to their profound effects on p...

Psilocybin Changes How Your Brain Communicates, New Study Shows

Psychedelic mushrooms may be able to make your brain more flexible.

Psilocybin Changes How Your Brain Communicates, New Study Shows

Psychedelic mushrooms may be able to make your brain more flexible.

Psilocybin Resets Brain Pain Networks and Boosts Painkillers

A single dose of psilocybin provides up to a month of nerve pain relief and fundamentally supercharges the efficacy of traditional painkillers.

USC Researchers Secure Funding to Initiate First Clinical Study of Psilocybin for Mental Health

In a pioneering effort at the University of Southern California, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine, the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI), and the Norris Comprehensiv...

The poster child for psychedelic mushrooms is named after a country that doesn't use it

In 1906, a U.S. plant pathologist named Franklin Sumner Earle collected a small brown mushroom in Cuba and shipped it to the New York Botanical Garden. He called it Stropharia cube...

Magic mushrooms could be effective treatment for cocaine addiction, study shows

Participants who got single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from cocaine than those who got placeboResults from a new clinical trial show that a single dose of psilo...

Woman with Alzheimer's starts conversing again after taking psilocybin

A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation after a single dose of psilocybin

An Alzheimer’s Patient Recovered Speech and Memory After One Dose of This Experimental Drug

An 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient regained speech and continence after taking 5g of psilocybin, an Alzheimer's experimental drug The post An Alzheimer’s Patient Recovered Speech a...

Advocates welcome Saskatchewan MP’s bill to remove barriers to psilocybin assisted therapy

For years magic mushrooms have been seen as a recreational party drug. But perceptions are changing. A growing number of researchers say psilocybin may have an important role.

Psychedelic researchers confront the hard questions as medical research expedited

To understand psychedelics — those powerful and cryptic agents of the mind — scientists are exploring uncharted landscapes. “We don’t yet really know why psilocybin or other psyche...

Huge Psilocybin Dose Has Incredible Effect on Elderly Dementia Patient

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A Single Dose of Psilocybin Could Ease Depression For Months, New Study Finds

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Woman With Alzheimer’s Shows Striking Improvement After Taking Magic Mushrooms

A single observational case suggests psilocybin may ‘awaken’ cognitive reserve in dementia. But scientists caution controlled trials are needed to know if the drug was the cause. T...

A psychedelics revival is overdue

R. Gordon Wasson was a Manhattan banker who fancied himself a mycologist. In 1955, after decades studying the mushrooms of ancient cultures, he traveled to the remote mountains of...

Pairing Psilocybin With Stillness Could Permanently Rewire the Brain

Researchers aim to discover if mindfulness practices can provide the cognitive scaffolding necessary to sustain the intense neuroplastic states and narrative deconstruction induced...

A dose of psilocybin helps smokers quit in new study

A dose of psilocybin helps smokers quit in new study

Psilocybin Compassionate Use in Germany: Lea Mertens and Andrea Jungaberle on the First Patients, Payers and Practicalit...

Last summer, Germany’s medicines regulator quietly green-lit a psilocybin compassionate use program, the first such pathway in the European Union (see Germany Establishes EU’s Firs...

Mushroom Behind 'Tiny Human' Visions Lacks Genes For Known Psychedelics

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Canada: TV News Report – Sask. MP Corey Tochor is moving to introduce legislation that could allow psilocybin-assisted t...

Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #226: The Ethics of Psilocybin for Advanced Alzheimer’s; Veterans’ Views on Psychedelics

Miracle or Minefield? The Alzheimer’s Case Report A Case Report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience late last month (Lago et al., 2026) caused quite a stir, with various media o...