- About 5% of adults worldwide live with depression.
- One commonly prescribed medication for treating depression is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which have quite a few potential side effects.
- Researchers from Imperial College London in the United Kingdom say that psilocybin provides similar improvement of depression symptoms as an SSRI.
- They found that participants also reported greater improvements in social functioning and psychological connectedness after 6…
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