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Previous studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers showed that psychedelic treatment with psilocybin relieved major depressive disorder symptoms in adults for up to a month. Now, in a follow-up study of those participants, the researchers report that the substantial antidepressant effects of psilocybin-assisted therapy, given with supportive psychotherapy, may last at least a year for some patients.

A compound found in so-called magic mushrooms, psilocybin produces visual and auditory hallucinations and profound changes in consciousness over a few hours after ingestion. In 2016, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers first reported that treatment with psilocybin under psychologically supported conditions significantly relieved existential anxiety and depression in people with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.A report on the new study was published on Feb. 15, 2022 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

The study was done under carefully controlled scientific studies by professional monitors who sat side-by-side with the patient.

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Magic Mushrooms have been used for many decades by drug users. It is a powerful psychedelic drug produced by many different fungi, and ingested orally. Like LSD it has been proposed for treatment (Timothy Leary). Leary earned a PhD at U.C. Berkeley and was a psychologist at Harvard University and famous for a speech given "Turn up, turn in, and turn out ". 

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were patrons of Leary, Lennon composed the song "Come Together" after meeting Leary.

L-R John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Yoko Ono

 Johns Hopkins is one of the sites of a national multisite randomized, placebo-controlled trial of psilocybin for major depressive disorder. 

The study was supported by philanthropic donors The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Tim Ferriss, Matt Mullenweg, Craig Nerenberg, Blake Mycoskie, and Dave Morin; as well as by grants from the Riverstyx Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32DA007209, R01DA003889, K23DA035915).

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