Take a moment to listen to music... made from plants.
Composer and sound artist Helen Anahita Wilson began to experiment with recording medicinal plants after a breast cancer diagnosis. She explains the process of making music from these plants in London's Chelsea Physic Garden.
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Here’s an interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation. Feeling lonely may be generally more dangerous than being alone.
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New research published in Health & Place suggests that engaging in outdoor activities—even alone—might actually protect us from feeling lonely.
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A recent study by scientists in Germany, Peru, and the United Kingdom explored the features of nature sounds that elicit mental well-being.
“We still don’t really know how the diversity and complexity of sounds affects how people feel, or why some sounds may be more uplifting than others,” explained study author Kevin Rozario, a graduate student at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research.
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Researchers found that dreams reinterpret elements from everyday life, transforming commonplace scenes and experiences into vivid, immersive tableaus.
These transformations varied from person to person, but the researchers were able to find patterns.
“Our findings show that dreams are not just a reflection of past experiences, but a dynamic process shaped by who we are and what we live through,” study author Valentina Elce explained.
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Scientist Bruce Damer contends psychedelics hold potential for more than addressing the mental health crisis.
He is driven by the belief that psychedelic drugs can crack open the minds of scientists and other problem-solvers.
In 2023, he founded the nonprofit organization the Center for MINDS (Multidisciplinary Investigation into Novel Discoveries and Solutions). Its philosophy: “Psychedelics and other consciousness practices may be our greatest underutilized tool for sparking paradigm-shifting breakthroughs.”
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After a recent trial, methylone no longer seems like a fringe compound and may be a future trauma therapeutic.
TSND-201 produced statistically significant placebo-adjusted improvements in PTSD severity.
The executive order dramatically affects research priorities, regulatory momentum, investment, and adoption.
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