Cybin, a biotech company working on next-generation psychedelic treatments, announced remarkable results from its Phase 2 clinical trial using a proprietary version of deuterated psilocybin for the treatment of depression.
CYB003 is a next-generation psilocybin designed to provide a faster onset of action and to reduce the duration of effects, ultimately thinning the financial barrier to access of this medicine in a medical setting.
The trial’s interim data demonstrated “rapid, robust, and clinically significant reduction of depression symptoms” three weeks after a single 12mg dose of CYB003.
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This recently published study showed that psilocybin use is associated with persisting improvements in mental health and wellbeing.
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Keep reading for an interview with the patient thought to be the first person to receive psilocybin under Oregon’s new system. He discusses his psilocybin experience.
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Psilocybin is both serotonergic and anti-inflammatory and therefore may offer significant therapeutic benefits to patients with mental illness secondary to autoimmune inflammation.
This study suggests that the role of microdosed psilocybin in the treatment of neuropsychiatric Lyme disease and autoimmune encephalopathies warrants further study.
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In 2020, Oregon was the first state in the U.S. to effectively legalize psilocybin, the hallucinogenic component of magic mushrooms, for therapeutic use.
It has shown to be effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and end-of-life anxiety.
Since then, regulations and restrictions for psilocybin treatment have taken shape across the state with many rural counties opting out of providing any psilocybin-related services at all.
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