Shamanistic brew eases hard-to-treat depression

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3122, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Now the first randomized clinical trial of ayahuasca for treating depression has found it can rapidly improve mood. In the trial, led by Draulio de Araujo at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil, 14 people with treatment-resistant depression got single doses, while 15 people with the same condition had a placebo. To fool placebo recipients into thinking they were getting the real thing, de Araujo and his team concocted an equally foul-tasting brown drink. They also carefully selected participants who had never tried ayahuasca or other psychedelic drugs before