A new study that is yet to be peer-reviewed has found that rats given psilocybin injections immediately after suffering minor brain injuries can not only recover from their injuries but also strengthen neural connections within the brain.
To arrive at these findings, the researchers used female rats as study subjects. The rats were subjected to mild head blows on a daily basis for 3 days to simulate simple traumatic brain injuries. After 3 days of these blows, the rats were divided into two groups. One group was given a saline solution while the other group received psilocybin injections. The group given the saline solution served as the control group.
MRI scans were then conducted on the brains of all the rats. The rats treated with the saline solution had vasogenic edema. The psilocybin-treated group exhibited mild vasogenic edema. Additionally, the group that received the psilocybin injections had their neural networks restored, with an added benefit of having stronger connections between different parts of the brain.
The Northeastern University-based researchers described their findings as “stunning.” The brains of all the rats showed elevated levels of phosphorylated tau proteins, which usually exist at high levels in people diagnosed with neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and chronic encephalopathy.
In the rats given psilocybin, the volume of tau proteins kept decreasing as time elapsed after they received this treatment.
Additionally, all the rats were made to walk on a beam to test their mobility levels. The psilocybin group performed better than their counterparts that received a saline solution. This shows that the psilocybin treatment helped the rats to restore their mobility skills.
This study’s findings are significant because to-date, there isn’t any FDA-approved treatment for repeated TBIs. This is a concern, because data shows that almost 3 million people in America get diagnosed with a TBI each year. If psilocybin can prove in clinical trials that it can help to treat these individuals, there would be a huge door opened in the way traumatic brain injuries are treated. Effective TBI treatments would also forestall the complications that develop later as a result of suffering a traumatic brain injury.
Recent research has also shown that psilocybin can help to treat PTSD, chronic depression and several other mental health issues by boosting neuroplasticity. As more trials are conducted by firms like Seelos Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SEEL), psychedelic treatments will come closer to being approved for use in the mainstream medical field, especially for conditions that have proved to be hard to treat using conventional medications.
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