New research from Compass Pathways says that:
“It has long been thought that SSRIs could interfere with the potential therapeutic effect of psilocybin.
This data is exciting because it provides a preliminary signal that this is not the case, and that patients could remain on their SSRI antidepressant medication and experience the same effect from COMP360 psilocybin treatment as people who are not on SSRIs.”
Psychedelics and Antidepressants
5 Questions for psychopharmacologist Kelan Thomas. Thomas discusses what we know — and don’t know — about potential interactions between psychedelics and SSRIs.
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Drug historian David Herzberg discusses the history of “mind medicines” like Prozac, and parallels between antidepressants and psychedelics.
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Here’s another look at the research showing that the superior ability of psychedelics to cross the nerve cell membranes might be one reason why they seem better at promoting cortical neuron growth than SSRIs.
Read morePsilocybin and Antidepressants
New research suggests that antidepressants can diminish the effects of psilocybin.
Read moreSSRI Drugs and Psilocybin
A new study suggests that SSRI drugs can be used safely with psilocybin to treat depression. Keep reading to learn more.
Read morePsychedelics as Antidepressants?
Here’s an update on the research of psychedelics as antidepressants.
Read moreAre Magic Mushrooms the Next Antidepressants?
“Hallucination-inducing drugs like magic mushrooms could be about to break big pharma’s stranglehold on the hugely lucrative market for antidepressants, according to the head of the world’s first centre for psychedelic research.”
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