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For psilocybin it looks like the more powerful experience means more pronounced and longer lasting therapeutic effect: "Reductions in depressive symptoms at 5 w
by tpm 9y ago
For psilocybin it looks like the more powerful experience means more pronounced and longer lasting therapeutic effect:
"Reductions in depressive symptoms at 5 weeks were predicted by the quality of the acute psychedelic experience."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29119217 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29119217
And there are more and more studies about the mechanism of psychedelics such ad psilocybin and LSD coming out, essentially telling the same story.
- mabbo 9y agoThat's correlation, not causation. What if the more intense experience comes from the same root cause as the more pronounced effect (ie: maybe some people are just wired differently and it has multiple effects?) More study is needed before we go off saying that the psychedelic experience is the cause of the improvement, in my view.
- tpm 9y agoYes, my comment is based on reading essentially all the studies that came out during last few years (since about 2008). I am pretty sure there is a causal relationship, but to prove it is a different task (and one that is not strictly needed for medical approval).