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Psilocybin Therapy Boosts Emotional Empathy for Weeks

Psilocybin Therapy Boosts Emotional Empathy for Weeks

Psilocybin mushrooms

What they found

Psilocybin therapy (0.215 mg/kg) improved emotional empathy for positive emotions for 2+ weeks.

Psilocybin therapy (0.215 mg/kg) improved emotional empathy for positive emotions for 2+ weeks.

The number

increasing empathy for positive emotions by 1.25 points

How solid is it?

Early human

Early human

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

At a glance

Latin name

Compound

psilocybin

psilocybin

Published in

Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry

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PSILOCYBIN & LEGISLATION

PSILOCYBIN & LEGISLATION

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Empathy Shift

Empathy Shift

Psilocybin therapy (0.215mg/kg) improved patients' emotional empathy for 2+ weeks, particularly increasing empathy for positive emotions by 1.25 points while the typical negative bias (1.2x stronger responses to negative vs positive stimuli) remained unchanged.

Psilocybin therapy (0.215mg/kg) improved patients' emotional empathy for 2+ weeks, particularly increasing empathy for positive emotions by 1.25 points while the typical negative bias (1.2x stronger responses to negative vs positive stimuli) remained unchanged.

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