Single Dose of Psychedelic Compound Psilocybin Can Remodel Connections in the Brain
It’s clear that psychedelics are helpful in treating depression, but have you ever wondered why they work so well?
When someone suffers from depression or chronic stress, they typically have a reduction in neural connections, but psychedelics might be able to reverse this. A study at Yale just revealed that one dose of psilocybin can increase these neuronal connections by 10%. The dose also increased the density of dendritic spines (those little spikey things on nerve cells), making the connections stronger. About a third of the new connections remained intact after 34 days.