Posted on Dec 27, 2022
Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say
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One of the hottest tickets at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego was a session on psychedelic drugs.
About 1,000 brain scientists squeezed into an auditorium at the San Diego Convention Center for the symposium, called Psychedelics and Neural Plasticity.
They'd come to hear talks on how drugs like psilocybin and MDMA can alter individual brain cells, can help rewire the brain, and may offer a new way to treat disorders ranging from depression to chronic pain.
"I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people," says Alex Kwan, a biomedical engineer at Cornell University who spoke at the session.
"In the last couple of years there has been a lot of public excitement about psychedelics," Kwan says. "The scientists are catching on now that we just don't know much about what these compounds do."
So during the session, Kwan and several other researchers shared what they are learning about the drugs.
One of the hottest tickets at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego was a session on psychedelic drugs.
About 1,000 brain scientists squeezed into an auditorium at the San Diego Convention Center for the symposium, called Psychedelics and Neural Plasticity.
They'd come to hear talks on how drugs like psilocybin and MDMA can alter individual brain cells, can help rewire the brain, and may offer a new way to treat disorders ranging from depression to chronic pain.
"I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people," says Alex Kwan, a biomedical engineer at Cornell University who spoke at the session.
"In the last couple of years there has been a lot of public excitement about psychedelics," Kwan says. "The scientists are catching on now that we just don't know much about what these compounds do."
So during the session, Kwan and several other researchers shared what they are learning about the drugs.
Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say
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Gotta be careful with this...all the successful sessions also include significant amounts of counseling
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1964 or 65 I was at Ft Knox. I went to CBR school because nobody else wanted to go. Any way the Army was expirmenting using LSD on the Battlefield. We talked about it in class. The instructor said it was supposed to make the enemy happy not caring about anything making them easy to capture. What they found out about the drug a few years later it made soldiers suicidial and crazy and actually fight harder. I don't know if it was tried out in Vietnam or not, maybe someone can answer that question.
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