Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety

Re:Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety by netizen-936824 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @09:31AM (#30896776)

Its rather surprising to me that you're asking this in a thread about the strongest evidence we have for cognition being biochemical.

The evidence is that action of psychoactive drugs, especially psychedelics and anaesthetics. We have compounds that we have studied that actions of and they act on neurons and their networks to alter or eliminate cognition.

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Re:Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety by jaminal on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:21PM (#30898041)

I hear that you are surprised.

I understand there is data that supports this theory; I wasn’t aware that it is definitive nor how easily it could be reproduced.

Before it was edited, your original statement framed certainty about cognition originating in chemistry as a personal belief. Which isn’t a scientific statement.

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Re:Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety by netizen-936824 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:57PM (#30898968)

I don't believe I edited the comment that you're replying to.

Edit: as a side note, general anesthesia is used hundreds or thousands of times daily and it always eliminates or reduces cognition. That's literally the whole purpose of using it

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Re:Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety by jaminal on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:57AM (#30919036)

I just came across this -

https://neurosciencenews.com/psychedelics-consciousness-2028...

kinda fascinating…

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Re:Psychedelics May Ease Cancer Patients’ Depression, Anxiety by jaminal on Monday April 04, 2022 @09:29PM (#30914236)

My apologies, I thought there was an edit where you said you firmly believed this.

Interesting point re: GA.

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