Exploring The Magic Mushroom

Episode 10 of the This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg podcast, hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery, titled "Exploring The Magic Mushroom" was published on May 17, 2024 and runs 25 minutes.

May 17, 2024 ·25m · This Is Your Brain With Dr. Phil Stieg

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It's effective against depression, can help you stop smoking, even ease end-of-life distress. It's non-addictive, naturally occurring, and has been used for thousands of years -- but you can't have it. It's psilocybin, the compound that creates the "magic" in dozens of species of mushrooms.

Johns Hopkins researcher Albert Garcia-Romeu, Ph.D. knows just how magical it is. He's conducting research on psilocybin's therapeutic value for everything from persistent Lyme disease to a range of mental health conditions. Find out what this psychedelic drug can do, and why it got such a bad reputation.

Plus... revisiting Timothy Leary's rise and fall as he turned on, tuned out, and dropped out.

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