Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by notabee on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:28PM (#21642922)

Here's a few for depression and air pollution[1][2] Here's some studies on anti-inflammatory treatments for treatment resistant depression[3] And more relevant to the original topic, 5HT-2A receptor agonists may have anti-inflammatory effects. There's huge potential in a broad class of molecules that have been banned for moral, not medicinal, reasons.[4] Edit: picked another one [5]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30719959

2. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/brain-pollution-evid...

3.https://www.healio.com/psychiatry/depression/news/online/%7B...

4.https://www.fasebj.org/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supp...

5.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788795/

That's just some quick googling. There's tons more out there to read!

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Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by Freegile on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:36PM (#21642999)

Sorry, but none of these are studies about the relationship between depression and inflammation treatment.

Such a study would have to provide a measurement of the severity of the depression. Then split the patients in two groups. Give one group a placebo and the other one the inflammation treatment. And then compare the depression severity in those groups after the treatment.

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