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The way you speak may reveal whether a psychedelic drug could help treat depression or anxiety.
Robin Carhart-Harris and his team at Imperial College London have been testing psilocybin – a hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms – in people with treatment-resistant depression. Their pilot study found that when it was given to 12 volunteers alongside psychological support, five of them no longer met the clinical criteria for a depression diagnosis three months later.
But how can you tell if psilocybin might help someone? Working with the Imperial team, Facundo Carrillo …