Treatment-resistant depression affects about 30% of people who have major depressive disorder.A 22-site clinical trial shows a synthesized version of the psychedelic chemical psilocybin helps reduce depression symptoms in people with treatment-resistant...
IN A WORLD-FIRST, Australia has announced it will officially recognize MDMA and psilocybin as medicines. On February 3, Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)—the government authority responsible for regulating medicines—announced that starting July 1,...
Could psychedelics magic mushrooms cure an anxious mind? Author and journalist Michael Pollan thinks so. He spoke to ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke about his bestseller ‘How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics’. For his research Pollan, 63, who...
About an hour outside Halifax, tucked away behind the Hants Community Hospital in Windsor, N.S., workers in a small facility are growing their own magic mushrooms and synthesizing what makes them magic: psilocybin. Its operators, Halucenex Life Sciences Inc.,...
Can the compound found in magic mushrooms help treat depression without making people high? That’s what researchers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will be endeavoring to find out. Today, the hospital announced it is the recipient of a first-ever...
VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 1, 2023 /CNW/ – Numinus Wellness Inc. (“Numinus” or the “Company”) (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX: NUMIF), a mental health care company advancing innovative treatments and safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, today... 