date:Jul 29, 2013
cesses. But new research suggests that they may in fact be the result of long term physiological mutations to the brain.
In the South Florida University study, the mice treated with low doses of psilocybin grew healthy new brain cells and their overactive medial prefrontal cortex regions (common in PTSD sufferers) were restored to normal functionality.
Further independent studies have shown that the hippocampus part of the brain is damaged by extreme stress and that this is specific to PTSD an