Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' in mice: study

Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by daddylongstroke on Thursday July 08, 2021 @09:25AM (#27771650)

Fungi are the origins of all creatures on earth, humans included it seems. As far as I know, it's still the oldest identified complex organism on this planet.

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Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by pvaldes on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:31AM (#27782262)

> Fungi are the origins of all creatures on earth, humans included

Bacteria are older.

Nobody knows if that fossil is a fungus. It looks like one, but to me looks much more like a tiny sponge. I could be wrong and could be perfectly a third different thing. Ctenophora are now the oldest animals I think, so there was a lot of old complexity yet from the start that we don't know well.

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Re:Psilocybin repairs 'brains cells damaged by depression' i... by daddylongstroke on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @07:15PM (#27827391)

I was thinking of Prototaxites which was maybe 470m years old (possibly) and humongous. Sounds like sponges are it (oldest) then. Until we learn otherwise.

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