Frontiers | Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report
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BackgroundAdvanced Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is generally regarded as a stage of irreversible functional decline. Psilocybin is known to transiently alter lar...
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    12 days ago

    This will need many more repetitions in many more patients to be able to deserve that claim, but still, awesome!

    I’m just surprised they never tried this before

  • Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    5·
    12 days ago

    This is big time… the fact that the systems are still in place, even behind the disease means there’s potential for treatment, recovery, and maybe even prevention some day.

    I hope they get the ability to do a large scale study.

    • The_Jit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Yeah this part is pretty telling:

      The persistence of urinary continence after more than 5 years of chronic incontinence is particularly notable, given that continence depends on integrated interoceptive awareness, executive inhibition, and fronto-insular network function.