![]() In 2016, researchers at Imperial College London published one of the first studies outlining how LSD affects the brain. QUIRKS AND QUARKS: Michael Pollan on the science of how psychedelics can 'shake your snow globe'.DAY 6: Why some investors and medical researchers are looking past pot to psychedelic drugs.But the success rates of these early trials - often above 60 per cent after a single treatment - are promising.Īs that research gains momentum, researchers are also working to gain a better understanding of how and why these drugs affect our minds. To date, much of the research has involved small open-label studies. and elsewhere are studying psychedelic drugs' efficacy as a possible treatment for everything from end-of-life anxiety to PTSD and treatment-resistant depression. (Submitted by Octavian Mihai) This is your brain on psychedelicsĪcademic institutions and for-profit companies in the U.S. Octavian Mihai says psilocybin helped alleviate his anxiety following a devastating cancer diagnosis. I just felt relief - I felt like I had let go." And at that point, I saw this black smoke just coming out of me. "I had this kind of insight that I'm letting cancer terrorize me when I don't have to let that happen. Five years later, it still hasn't returned. ![]() Within a matter of weeks, Mihai was sitting on a health clinic sofa, holding a tiny white pill.Īs the drug took effect, his anxiety faded away. Mihai found himself struggling to hold conversation with friends. In an effort to self-medicate, he started drinking heavily.Īlarmed, his doctor referred him to a research team at NYU who were testing psilocybin - the active ingredient in magic mushrooms - as a possible treatment for anxiety in cancer patients. "My mind was not able to focus on anything but the idea that the cancer is coming back," he told Day 6. After six months of chemotherapy, the cancer was in remission - but Mihai was still spiralling out. In 2012, at the age of 21, Mihai had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. It took a hallucinogenic drug to help Octavian Mihai see past his anxiety. Welcome to Part Two of The Big Trip, a special Day 6 series all about the future of psychedelic drugs.
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