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Consciousness and Psilocybin Effects on Well-Being: The CoPEWell Study
ClinicalTrials.gov · 2026-07-01
Meskalin / Mescaline
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-30
DMT und Ayahuasca / DMT and Ayahuasca
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-30
DMT und Ayahuasca / DMT and Ayahuasca
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-30
Neuroestimulantes naturales: de rituales ancestrales a terapias de vanguardia
Revista CienciaUANL · 2026-06-30
Meskalin / Mescaline
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-06-30
Usos recreativos, medicinales y etnobotánicos de hongos alucinógenos: una revisión
Multidisciplinary Collaborative Journal · 2026-06-30
Past-Year Psilocybin and Alcohol Co-Use: Associations With Mental Health Symptoms
Journal of Drug Issues · 2026-06-30
Efficacy in Relapse Prevention: Psilocybin in Alcohol Use Disorder With Depressive Symptoms
ClinicalTrials.gov · 2026-06-30
Psilocybin shows mixed results for patients with treatment-resistant depression
The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update · 2026-06-30
Single-dose psilocybin with CBT more effective than nicotine patch for smoking cessation
The Brown University Psychopharmacology Update · 2026-06-30
Revealing shortcomings in the assessment of psilocybin effects on OCD-related symptoms in preclinical and clinical studies: A systematic review
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports · 2026-06-30
Implementing psilocybin-assisted therapy in palliative care settings: A survey of stakeholders.
Palliative medicine · 2026-06-30
Shared and distinct brain regions targeted for immediate early gene expression by ketamine and psilocybin
ABSTRACT Psilocybin is a psychedelic with therapeutic potential. While there is growing evidence that psilocybin exerts its beneficial effects through enhancing neural plasticity, the exact brain regions involved are not completely understood. Determining the impact of psilocybin on plasticity-related gene expression throughout the brain can broaden our unde...
Psilocybin induces spatially constrained alterations in thalamic functional organizaton and connectivity
ABSTRACT Background Serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT 2AR ) agonist psychedelics including psilocybin and LSD (“classic” psychedelics) evoke acute alterations in perception and cognition. Altered thalamocortical connectivity has been proposed to underlie these effects, which is supported by some functional MRI (fMRI) studies. Likely due to sample size limitations,...
Natural language signatures of psilocybin microdosing
Serotonergic psychedelics are being studied as novel treatments for mental health disorders and as facilitators of improved well-being, mental function and creativity. Recent studies have found mixed results concerning the effects of low doses of psychedelics (“microdosing”) on these domains. However, microdosing is generally investigated using instruments d...
Increased low-frequency brain responses to music after psilocybin therapy for depression
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with psilocybin is an emerging therapy with great promise for depression, and modern psychedelic therapy (PT) methods incorporate music as a key element. Music is an effective emotional/hedonic stimulus that could also be useful in assessing changes in emotional responsiveness following psychedelic therapy. Brain responses ...
Microevidence for microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study of subjective effects, behavior, creativity, perception, cognition, and brain activity
The use of low sub-hallucinogenic doses of psychedelics (“microdosing”) has gained popularity in recent years. Although anecdotal reports claim multiple benefits associated with this practice, the lack of placebo-controlled studies limits our knowledge of microdosing and its effects. Moreover, research conducted in laboratory settings might fail to capture t...
LSD and psilocybin flatten the brain’s energy landscape: insights from receptor-informed network control theory
Psychedelics like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin offer a powerful window into the function of the human brain and mind, by temporarily altering subjective experience through their neurochemical effects. A recent model postulates that serotonin 2a (5-HT2a) receptor agonism allows the brain to explore its dynamic landscape more readily, as ref...
The DMT and Psilocin Treatment Changes CD11b+ Activated Microglia Immunological Phenotype
Psychedelics are new, promising candidate molecules for clinical use in psychiatric disorders such as Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). They were recently also proposed as molecules supporting neural tissue repair by anti-inflammatory properties. Here we reported that two classic psychedelics, DMT and psilocin, c...
Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo
Summary Psilocybin is a serotonergic psychedelic with untapped therapeutic potential. There are hints that the use of psychedelics can produce neural adaptations, although the extent and time scale of the impact in a mammalian brain are unknown. In this study, we used chronic two-photon microscopy to image longitudinally the apical dendritic spines of layer ...
Psilocin acutely disrupts sleep and affects local but not global sleep homeostasis in laboratory mice
Serotonergic psychedelic drugs, such as psilocin (4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine), profoundly alter the quality of consciousness through mechanisms which are incompletely understood. Growing evidence suggests that a single psychedelic experience can positively impact long-term psychological well-being, with relevance for the treatment of psychiatric disord...
Psilocybin-induced changes in brain network integrity and segregation correlate with plasma psilocin level and psychedelic experience
The emerging novel therapeutic psilocybin produces psychedelic effects via engagement of cerebral serotonergic targets by psilocin (active metabolite). The serotonin 2A receptor critically mediates these effects by altering distributed neural processes that manifest as increased entropy, reduced functional connectivity (FC) within discrete brain networks (i....
Lasting effects of a single psilocybin dose on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy individuals
ABSTRACT Background Psilocybin is a psychedelic drug that has shown lasting positive effects on clinical symptoms and self-reported well-being following a single dose. There has been little research into the long-term effects of psilocybin on brain connectivity in humans. Aims Evaluate changes in resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) at one-week and t...
Psilocybin rescues sociability deficits in an animal model of autism
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by core deficits in social interaction. The classic serotonergic psychedelic psilocybin has been suggested as a therapeutic agent that may ameliorate in the core symptomology of ASD. We found that the acute response to psilocybin was attenuated in the prenatal valproic acid exposure mouse model of ASD, and impo...
Delayed Anxiolytic-Like Effects of Psilocybin in Male Mice Are Supported by Acute Glucocorticoid Release
Despite observed correlations between acute glucocorticoid release, self-reported anxiety, and long-term treatment outcomes for human studies using psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy approaches, the mechanistic relationship between psychedelic-dependent stress and subsequent behavioral responses remains unclear. Using rodents, direct manipulation of stress-as...
How does it feel to be on psilocybin? Dose-response relationships of subjective experiences in humans
Psilocybin is the active component of magic mushrooms and is well known for its psychoactive properties. Different questionnaires have been developed to systematically quantify altered states of consciousness induced by psychoactive drugs. The aim of this study was to obtain the dose-response relationships of the subjective experiences induced by psilocybin ...
Serotonergic psychedelic drugs LSD and psilocybin reduce the hierarchical differentiation of unimodal and transmodal cortex
LSD and psilocybin are serotonergic psychedelic compounds with potential in the treatment of mental health disorders. Past neuroimaging investigations have revealed that both compounds can elicit significant changes to whole-brain functional organization and dynamics. A recent proposal linked past findings into a unified model and hypothesized reduced whole-...
Psilocybin exerts distinct effects on resting state networks associated with serotonin and dopamine in mice
Hallucinogenic agents have been proposed as potent antidepressants; this includes the serotonin (5-HT) receptor 2A agonist psilocybin. In human subjects, psilocybin alters functional connectivity (FC) within the default-mode network (DMN), a constellation of inter-connected regions that is involved in self-reference and displays altered FC in depressive diso...
Decreased Directed Functional Connectivity in the Psychedelic State
Neuroimaging studies of the psychedelic state offer a unique window onto the neural basis of conscious perception and selfhood. Despite well understood pharmacological mechanisms of action, the large-scale changes in neural dynamics induced by psychedelic compounds remain poorly understood. Using source-localised, steady-state MEG recordings, we describe cha...
Serotonergic Psychedelics LSD & Psilocybin Increase the Fractal Dimension of Cortical Brain Activity in Spatial and Temporal Domains
Psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin and LSD, represent unique tools for researchers in-vestigating the neural origins of consciousness. Currently, the most compelling theories of how psychedelics exert their effects is by increasing the complexity of brain activity and moving the system towards a critical point between order and disorder, creating more dyn...
Altered trajectories in the dynamical repertoire of functional network states under psilocybin
Brain activity can be understood as the exploration of a dynamical landscape of activity configurations over both space and time. This dynamical landscape may be defined in terms of spontaneous transitions within a repertoire of discrete metastable states of functional connectivity (FC), which underlie different mental processes. However, it remains unclear ...
Convergent evolution of psilocybin biosynthesis by psychedelic mushrooms
Psilocybin is a psychoactive compound with clinical applications produced by dozens of mushroom species 1. There has been a longstanding interest in psilocybin research with regard to treatment for addiction 2, depression 3, and end-of-life suffering 4. However, until recently very little was known about psilocybin biosynthesis and its ecological role. Here ...