Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses
Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
MDMA could help trauma survivors face painful memories
Rachel Schraer reports for the BBC: “MDMA – most commonly known as a party drug – could be more effective than therapy alone at treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The results of a keenly-awaited trial suggest two-thirds of people no longer qualified for a PTSD…
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‘Magic mushrooms’ could avert looming mental health crisis, says North Wales police boss
“The fact that psilocybin is classified as a Class A drug means there has been a research blackout for nearly 50 years into the beneficial effect it can have in improving the lives of people suffering from PTSD and depression.”Arfon…
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Magic mushrooms could help ex-soldiers to overcome trauma
Virtual reality PTSD treatment has ‘big impact’ for veterans
Tomos Morgan reports for BBC Wales . “Virtual reality could be used to help military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who have struggled with mainstream treatment. It involves patients walking on a treadmill in front of a screen which projects images depicting the…
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The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Flotation and anxiety
Dr. Justin Feinstein, of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Oklahoma, USA, has just published a study on the use of floatation (in a float pool) in relation to a clinical population displaying various manifestations of anxiety … including those diagnostically labelled with…
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