Can Psychedelics Slow Dementia?
<p>Psychedelics and dementia are an unlikely pair. Psychonauts in the 1960s and 1970s were young anti-establishment hippies and freethinkers, not older adults in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Yet psychedelic researchers are testing the possibility that a hallucinogenic trip — with all its cognitive distortions — could one day be among the therapies offered to people with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and other types of cognitive decline.</p>
<p>Despite recent reports that an off-duty pilot on an Alaska airlines flight <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/off-duty-pilot-accused-trying-disable-jetliner-faces-first-court-hearing-2023-10-24/#:~:text=Oct%2024%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20An,court%20documents%20showed%20on%20Tuesday." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">tried to hijack and crash</a> a plane on a flight from Washington to California after ingesting magic mushrooms, psilocybin, in general, has a solid safety profile. Numerous clinical trials have shown great promise for treating depression, a condition that dementia researchers believe may cause the same types of nerve cell damage as occurs in the early stages of neurodegenerative disorders.</p>
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