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Cong Zhang

57 indexed publications match this author name.

ORCID: 0000-0003-0713-3722
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Topics

Depression 25 Mechanism of Action 25 Receptor Pharmacology 17 Animal Study 17 Review Article 15 Safety 11 Neuroplasticity 10 Aging 10 Pharmacology 9 Systematic Review 9 PTSD 8 Addiction 8

Journals

Chinese medical journal 2 Nature communications 2 bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology 2 Frontiers in psychiatry 2 Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) 2 Biological psychiatry 1 PsyArXiv 1 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 1

Publication history

5-HT2A receptor activation is dispensable for psilocybin-induced fear extinction and neuroplasticity in mice.Chinese medical journal · 2026-09-15 Psychedelics and the Extracellular Matrix: Rewiring Neuroplasticity and Metaplasticity for Next-Generation Psychiatric Therapies.Biological psychiatry · 2026-09-15 Neural correlates and behavioral outcomes of aesthetic chills and their prosthetic augmentationPsyArXiv · 2026-09-13 Modulating the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Psychedelics at Serotonin Receptors via Terahertz WavesThe Journal of Physical Chemistry B · 2026-09-12 Multilevel Mechanisms and Clinical Efficacy of Psilocybin in Depression Treatment: A Systematic ReviewInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2026-09-10 Efficacy and Safety of Psychedelic Microdosing on Psychological Outcomes in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.CNS drugs · 2026-08-13 Current status and future prospects of research on psilocybin's regulation of neurotransmitters and their receptors related to the pathogenesis of tinnitus.Hearing research · 2026-08-01 Investigating the impact of serotonergic psychedelic drugs, MDMA and ketamine on social cognition in psychiatric disorders: A scoping review.Psychopharmacology · 2026-07-01 Psilocybin reduces fear memory and restores neuroplasticity in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortexJournal of Psychopharmacology · 2026-06-28 DESI-MSI-Based Multi-Organ Distribution Mapping of Psilocin in ZebrafishMolecules · 2026-06-18 Psychedelics disrupt hierarchical cortical propagations in the default mode network of humans and mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026-06-16 Overcoming Pharmacokinetic and Peripheral Safety Challenges in Psychedelic Therapies: The Promise of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2026-06-12 The astrocytes in the prefrontal cortex contribute to the rapid antidepressant-like effects of psilocybin in the chronic restraint stress mouse modelProgress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · 2026-04-01 Single-dose psilocybin promotes cell-type-specific changes of neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex.Neurotherapeutics: the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026-01-01 Unlocking the power of tryptamine alkaloids in Psilocybe fungi: chemistry, mental health potential and legal challengesMycological Progress · 2025-12-08 Sex-specific role of the 5-HT receptor in psilocybin-induced extinction of opioid reward.Nature communications · 2025-11-20 Pharmacotherapy to Prevent Alcohol Relapse in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease.Current gastroenterology reports · 2025-11-19 Dynamic myocardial injury and variable hallucination latency in poisoning: a molecularly confirmed case series from China.Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025-10-01 The Medial Prefrontal Cortex Modulates Psychedelic-like Effects of PsilocinACS Pharmacology & Translational Science · 2025-08-08 The Medial PrefrontalCortex Modulates Psychedelic-likeEffects of PsilocinFigshare · 2025-07-08 The molecular mechanisms through which psilocybin prevents suicide: evidence from network pharmacology and molecular docking analyses.Translational psychiatry · 2025-06-16 Efficacy and safety of psilocybin for the treatment of substance use disorders: A systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025-06-01 Psilocybin Mitigates Behavioral Despair and Cognitive Impairment in Treatment-resistant Depression Model using Wistar Kyoto RatsResearch Square · 2025-05-06 166. Dynamic Mediodorsal Thalamus Activity Predicts and Reflects Longitudinal Treatment Outcomes in Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-Resistant DepressionBiological Psychiatry · 2025-04-09 De Novo Biosynthesis of Antidepressant Psilocybin in Escherichia coli.Microbial biotechnology · 2025-04-01 Pharmacokinetics of Psilocybin: A Systematic Review.Pharmaceutics · 2025-03-25 Structural basis for psilocybin biosynthesis.Nature communications · 2025-03-22 Psychedelics and Suicide-Related Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025-02-20 PSILOCYBIN MITIGATES BEHAVIORAL DESPAIR AND COGNITIVE RECOGNITION IMPAIRMENTS BY REGULATING THE HYPOTHALAMIC- PITUITARY-ADRENAL (HPA) AXIS VIA THE BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR (BDNF) SIGNALING PATHWAY MEDIATED BY THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM (ECS)The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025-02-01 Early psilocybin intervention alleviates behavioral despair and cognitive impairment in stressed Wistar rats.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2025-01-10 Structural insights into tryptamine psychedelics: The role of hydroxyl indole ring site in 5-HT receptor activation and psychedelic-like activity.European journal of medicinal chemistry · 2025-01-05 Single-dose psilocybin alters resting state functional networks in patients with body dysmorphic disorder.Psychedelics · 2025-01-01 An investigation of acute physiological and psychological moderators of psychedelic-induced personality change among healthy volunteers.Neuroscience applied · 2025-01-01 Impact of psilocybin on cognitive function: A systematic review.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024-12-01 Psychoactive substances for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.Asian journal of psychiatry · 2024-11-01 Mushroom poisoning of Panaeolus subbalteatus from Ningxia, northwest China, with species identification and tryptamine detection.Toxicon: official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2024-08-28 Rapid, biochemical tagging of cellular activity history in vivo.bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology · 2024-05-14 Efficacy and safety of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychiatry research · 2024-05-01 Psilocybin promotes neuroplasticity and induces rapid and sustained antidepressant-like effects in mice.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2024-05-01 Psilocybin Promotes Cell-Type-Specific Changes in the Orbitofrontal Cortex Revealed by Single-Nucleus RNA-seqbioRxiv · 2024-01-07 Efficacy and acceptability of psilocybin for primary or secondary depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024-01-01 Alterations in brain network connectivity and subjective experience induced by psychedelics: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024-01-01 Psilocybin facilitates fear extinction in mice by promoting hippocampal neuroplasticity.Chinese medical journal · 2023-12-20 Molecular mechanisms of rapid-acting antidepressants: New perspectives for developing antidepressants.Pharmacological research · 2023-08-01 UNRAVELing the synergistic effects of psilocybin and environment on brain-wide immediate early gene expression in mice.bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology · 2023-02-21 Cystathionine Gamma-Lyase Regulate Psilocybin Biosynthesis in Mushroom via Amino Acid Metabolism Pathways.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022-08-18 Genomic Analysis of Reveals Its Nutritional Strategy and Application Potential in Bioremediation.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022-02-06 Structure-based discovery of nonhallucinogenic psychedelic analogs.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2022-01-28 Dose effect of psilocybin on primary and secondary depression: a preliminary systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2022-01-01 Multi-locus identification of by high-resolution melting (HRM).Forensic sciences research · 2022-01-01 Produces Amino Acids to Stimulate Protein Synthesis in Ruminal Tissue Explants the Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-Bisphosphate 3-Kinase Catalytic Subunit Beta-Serine/Threonine Kinase-Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Complex 1 Pathway.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022-01-01  (Inocybaceae), a new poisonous species from Eurasia, based on morphological, ecological, molecular and biochemical evidence.MycoKeys · 2022-01-01 Five new species of from China: Morphological characteristics, phylogenetic analyses, and toxin detection.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022-01-01 A whole genome atlas of 81 Psilocybe genomes as a resource for psilocybin production.F1000Res · 2021-12-17 A dynamic and multilocus metabolic regulation strategy using quorum-sensing-controlled bacterial small RNA.Cell reports · 2021-07-20 A whole genome atlas of 81 Psilocybe genomes as a resource for psilocybin production.Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021-07-02 In vivo production of psilocybin in E. coli.Metabolic engineering · 2019-12-01

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