By enginegroup/com/uk — 2020
As we head towards the end of the year Emma Robertson, CEO of ENGINE Transformation, sat down with Ruby Wax to chat about her remarkable career and the importance of mental health in the workplace.
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In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...
Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin are being tested to treat mental illness. They're also expanding our understanding about human consciousness.
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Demand from patients seeking help for their mental illnesses has led to underground use in a way that parallels black markets in the AIDS pandemic. This underground use has been most perilous for people of color, who face greater stigma and legal risks due to the War on Drugs.
To treat depression, the neurons which control the hormones serotonin and dopamine in our brains seem to get all the attention.
It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my colleagues and me, they change the structures of neurons themselves.
The scientists hope their long-awaited study on LSD in humans will open the floodgates to further research into psychedelics.