NIH R01 · 2025
Circuit Mechanisms of Psilocybin Following Chronic Stress
ABSTRACT / PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic stress is thought to play a role in multiple neuropsychiatric disorders. Standard pharmacological treatments for stress-related disorders can take up to several months to elicit a therapeutic response and can produce long-term undesirable off-target effects. A single dose of the psychedelic drug psilocybin has been shown to rapidly promote long-lasting therapeutic effects in humans and in chronically stressed rodents. However, the neural circuit mechanisms underlying the lasting changes induced by psilocybin in healthy and chronically stressed brains remain unknown. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a key structure impacted by chronic stress. Decreased…
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