“The open state of the critical period may be an opportunity for a post-treatment integration period to maintain the learning state,” she adds. “Too often, after having a procedure or treatment, people go back to their chaotic, busy lives that can be overwhelming. Clinicians may want to consider the time period after a psychedelic drug dose as a time to heal and learn, much like we do for open heart surgery.”

"For mice given ketamine, the critical period of social reward learning stayed open in the mice for 48 hours. With psilocybin, the open state lasted two weeks. For mice given MDMA, LSD and ibogaine, the critical period remained open for two, three and four weeks, respectively.

The researchers say the length of time that the critical period stayed open in mice seems to roughly parallel the average length of time that people self-report the acute effects of each psychedelic drug."

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2023/06/study-shows-psychedelic-drugs-reopen-critical-periods-for-social-learning

#psychedelics #psylocybin #mdma #lsd #ketamine #ptsd

Die #Neurowissenschaft hat gerade das Unmögliche geschafft.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3_GUilpnk&si=Pn_9m7diloR0hpPb

#Psylocybin #Lernen
#Persönlichkeitsentwicklung
#Trauma
#Heilung

Lese gerade "Der Weg nach #Eleusis – Das Geheimnis der Mysterien" und der Altertumsforscher Carl A. P. Ruck postuliert darin mittelbar, dass der Ursprung der mykenischen Kultur (Vorläufer des antiken Griechenlands) eine entheogene/psychedelische Erfahrung gewesen sein muss, nicht nur der Name Mykene verweist bereits auf Pilze. Albert Hofmann führt das pflanzenkundlich weiter bis auf die späteren Mysterienspiele von Eleusis.

#Psylocybin #LSD

Researchers at Northeastern University were left “absolutely stunned” when a preliminary study showed that psilocybin was able to restore brain function in adult rodents that had experienced mild, repetitive head injuries. @ScienceAlert has more:

https://flip.it/SuzjRJ

#Science #Brain #BrainInjuries #Health #Psylocybin

The subtext I am reading here is:
because neither pharmaceuticals nor health professionals can earn a lot of money with #psychedelics, it will not happen quickly with approvals.
Why should these help so that many people can live without #antidepressants or the like, or that many years of therapy are not necessary?

And: our consumer world does not need more satisfied people either, the #economy would say...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/19/therapeutic-potential-hallucinogens-risky-overhyped-lsd-mdma-psilocybin-work

#psylocybin #PsychotherapyResearch

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Psychologist Baptiste Fauvel and the Beckley Foundation are conducting two online surveys on the links between psychedelic experience and parenthood. If you are a mother or a father and have had a significant experience with a psychedelic during a transition to parenthood (1), or if

#psychedelics #entheogens #survey #psychology #parent #parenthood #psychonauts #LSD #psylocybin #MDMA