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The Whole Planet View

By Rosalind Watts, Sam Gandy, Alex Evans — 2019

Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space.

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Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?

The mind-altering drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. But how it helps, who it will serve, and who will profit are open questions.

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Emily Witt
2021
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Why It Matters that More Athletes Are Talking about Their Mental Health

Experts I spoke with for this story pointed to a couple of reasons professional athletes are particularly susceptible to mental health issues.

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John Affleck
2019
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A New Prescription for Depression: Join a Team and Get Sweaty

Research shows exercise can ease things like panic attacks or mood and sleep disorders, and a recent study in the journal Lancet Psychiatry found that popular team sports may have a slight edge over the other forms of physical activity.

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Sasa Woodruff
2018
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Microglia: A New Target in the Brain for Depression, Alzheimer’s, and More?

As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2020
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A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and then Lasting Peace

Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.

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Jan Hoffman
2016
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