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The frontiers of psychedelic therapy: psilocybin as a new treatment option
| Resumo: | The current work intends to offer a global outlook of the state-of-the-art of clinical research using classic psychedelics, with a special focus on clinical studies using psilocybin, which is the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”. This thesis approaches the legacy of the research conducted during the 60s, but goes further in depth into the research carried out during the last decade, after several decades of suppression due to the political and legal panorama, evidencing the evolution of clinical studies to comply with currently accepted standards. Psilocybin has been used in clinical studies together with psychological intervention aiming at assessing its safety, dosage and efficacy in alleviating problems such as anxiety, alcohol dependence, tobacco dependence and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The results from clinical research are promising, however, these are small-scale studies with limitations. Therefore, more and larger trials are necessary to better understand the value of this therapy. |
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| Autores principais: | Machado, Pedro Miguel Sá |
| Assunto: | Biomedicina farmacêutica Psilocibina Drogas psicadélicas - Terapêutica |
| Ano: | 2015 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Resumo: | The current work intends to offer a global outlook of the state-of-the-art of clinical research using classic psychedelics, with a special focus on clinical studies using psilocybin, which is the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”. This thesis approaches the legacy of the research conducted during the 60s, but goes further in depth into the research carried out during the last decade, after several decades of suppression due to the political and legal panorama, evidencing the evolution of clinical studies to comply with currently accepted standards. Psilocybin has been used in clinical studies together with psychological intervention aiming at assessing its safety, dosage and efficacy in alleviating problems such as anxiety, alcohol dependence, tobacco dependence and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The results from clinical research are promising, however, these are small-scale studies with limitations. Therefore, more and larger trials are necessary to better understand the value of this therapy. |
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