
at UCSF last night, presented by Dr. Ellen Bradley, with Josh Woolley and Robin Carhart-Harris. Large effect size with n=12. The motor exam improvement is like a 2-year reversal, which would be a breakthrough in treatments for Parkinson’s.
Hypothesis: Returning inflammation to homeostasis, separate from the psychedelic effects. More data in comments below. Next step: they will publish this work and do a larger RCT.
Event page with speaker bios.
P.S. Similar therapeutic anti-inflammatory benefits have been found in Lyme Disease with psilocybin (early research we heard about last year).
And anatomical differences in the brain are beginning to be measured:
Robin Carhart-Harris is working on this:
Psychedelics are becoming more mainstream, with the UCSF Provost as MC for last night’s event… and slides like this:
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