New Study Highlights How Sleep Patterns Are Impacted by Psilocybin
A new study has found that psilocybin causes temporary changes to the basic structural organization of normal sleep in lab mice. Professor Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy of the University of Oxford, who conducted the study, stated that evidence had shown that psychedelics such as psilocybin could rapidly reduce core symptoms of various psychiatric conditions, even in serious cases that were resistant to other treatments. The researchers’ objective was to examine the potential impact that psilocybin had on sleep, as sleep disturbance contributed to the continuation as well as the onset of diverse mental illnesses. For their study, the researchers used animal…
