What are you discovering about brain health?

Posted by gravity3 @gravity3, 6 days ago

I am interested in the latest
Publications on brain health.

Here is something that I found interesting and hopeful:
https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/10/how-psilocybin-reshapes-brain-circuits/

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gloaming | @gloaming | 5 days ago

We keep learning. I know that trauma survivors with extreme anxiety can be helped tremendously with hallucinogens of a kind or another. Peyote works for some, ayahuasca for others, shrooms for some, LSD for others. Must be a helluva journey finding out which one it is to be. 😀

gravity3 | @gravity3 | 5 days ago

In reply to @gloaming "We keep learning. I know that trauma survivors with extreme anxiety can be helped tremendously with..." + (show)

@gloaming

Hopkinspsychedelic.org

They are doing great research.

bigj | @bigj | 5 days ago

Like the Info Great to know Thank You (:-}

mrmacabre | @mrmacabre | 5 days ago

I've learned that it deteriorates as we age, my short term memory keeps getting worse and worse.

Fred | @fred1 | 5 days ago

In reply to @mrmacabre "I've learned that it deteriorates as we age, my short term memory keeps getting worse and..." + (show)

@mrmacabre, At 92 now - I'm not sure I have ANY short term...what was it we're talking about?

gloaming | @gloaming | 4 days ago

In reply to @fred1 "@mrmacabre, At 92 now - I'm not sure I have ANY short term...what was it we're..." + (show)

@fred1 Who's on first?

Fred | @fred1 | 4 days ago

gloaming, I don't know - is on third! I think.

gravity3 | @gravity3 | 4 days ago

I'm interested in what is new in brain health!!! There is a section under Just want to talk if you want to post a joke. I don't want to have this topic derailed.

fromthehill | @fromthehill | 4 days ago

In reply to @gloaming "@fred1 Who's on first?" + (show)

@gloaming
Good one....laughing is good for the soul...thanks..
Which is what we should do...remembering the good and funny parts of our lives. Xx

sisyphus | @sisyphus | 4 days ago

So the study referenced makes the point: In stress-affected brains, psilocybin sparked a significantly higher surge in new spine formation while simultaneously halting the excessive loss of existing connections.

In other words: Culprit is Unnecessay Stress.
Unnecessary because good stress informs us Run from the danger; Stop digging and rest; Think thru and Discard Unfounded Fear.

Reaching for pills first is to miss the opportunity what stress is tell you.
It's like reaching out for GLP-1 to kill hunger pangs and not addressing the source of Unnecessary hunger.

In the 2025 book, Brains Need Friends, the author reminds loneliness is behind More problems that we ever knew: Dying Early? Women by about 60%; Men closer to twice (78%)

No pill will counter the damage we do by not 'friending' each other, our other fallen fellows!

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