1 dose of psilocybin enhances creative thinking and empathy up to 1 week after use

New research provides more evidence that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can improve creative thinking, empathy, and subjective well-being. The findings appear in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

“In the last decade, there has been a renewed scientific interest in the utility of psychedelics. Increasing evidence suggests that psychedelics like psilocybin may have potential therapeutic value for disorders like anxiety, depression, and PTSD,” said Natasha Mason (@NL_Mason), a PhD candidate at Maastricht University and the corresponding author of the study.

“The focus of such investigations has been on psychedelics capacity to reduce symptoms of these disorders, thereby improving mood and well-being. However, of equal importance are the higher-order cognitive processes that may be enhanced, or that may play a role in symptom alleviation of the disorders.”

“Examples of processes that have been found to be decreased in these pathologies include creative, flexible thinking and empathy. Specifically, individuals are characterized by repetitive and rigid patterns of negative and compulsive thoughts, as well as reduced empathic abilities. Thus we wanted to assess whether psilocybin enhanced these processes, and if so, how long effects lasted,” Mason explained.

“Furthermore, we wanted to see whether enhancement in creativity and/or empathy correlated with participants ratings of subjective well-being. This would give further insight into the potential underlying cognitive mechanisms of symptom alleviation that has recently been reported by clinical studies.”

For their study, the researchers recruited 55 participants from a Psychedelic Society retreat in the Netherlands. The participants at the retreat consumed psilocybin-containing mushrooms in a tea form. About half of them had previously used the psychedelic drug.

Mason and her colleagues administered the participants various psychology tests to assess their creativity, empathy, and general life satisfaction three separate times: once the evening before ingesting psilocybin, once the morning after ingesting psilocybin, and finally 7 days after ingesting psilocybin.

“We found that psilocybin, when taken in a naturalistic setting, increased aspects of creativity and empathy the morning after, and 7 days after use. Furthermore, psilocybin also enhanced subjective well-being. Interestingly, changes in well-being correlated with changes in empathy after psilocybin use,” Mason told PsyPost.

The researchers examined two types of creativity — convergent thinking and divergent thinking. The former represents the ability to generate a single optimal solution to a problem, while the latter represents the ability to generate many solutions to a problem with several possible answers.

Participants’ divergent thinking abilities were improved the morning after ingesting psilocybin but their convergent thinking abilities were not affected. A week later, however, their divergent thinking performance had returned to normal while their convergent thinking abilities had improved.

“These findings are important in trying to understand psychedelics’ therapeutic utility in the treatment of certain pathologies. Specifically, in a therapy session, enhancements in empathy could increase feelings of openness and trust between patient and therapist, thus strengthening the therapeutic alliance,” Mason said.

“Furthermore, enhancements in flexible, creative thinking could allow individuals to break out of their old patterns of thought, and generate new and effective cognitive, emotional, and behavioral strategies. Importantly, our data suggest that these effects outlast the acute phase and persist over time, thus potentially opening up a ‘window of opportunity’ where therapeutic interventions could prove more effective.”

Another group of researchers investigated how a microdose of psilocybin affected 36 people who were present at a psychedelic retreat. They, too, found that participants had increased creativity after consuming a minute amount of the psychedelic drug, while their intelligence scores and general analytical abilities did not change.


“This study was a naturalistic study, assessing effects of psilocybin in volunteers who chose to attend a psychedelic retreat. Thus, selection bias of individuals restricts the generalizability of our results,” Mason explained.

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Participants’ divergent thinking abilities were improved the morning after ingesting psilocybin but their convergent thinking abilities were not affected. A week later, however, their divergent thinking performance had returned to normal while their convergent thinking abilities had improved.

i want sum

LITERALLY NO CONTROL GROUP

COMPLETELY DISREGARDED

The improvements I could display in one week at a cozy retreat, with or without psychedelics, defies imagination.

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Most drugs make you stop giving a shit, and are therefore more complacent, oft mistaken for happiness. Stress is good. It gets your ass working. Even if you want to own your sweat, sweat is earned, not handed to you. If you only exist to be satisfied, then the world should abandon you as hard as you abandoned it. The rest of us left are still working on quantum computing and space flight.

eat shrooms goy
It's good for you

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Psyches are only usually illegal because governments fears what they do to their control structure. They are otherwise superior to pharmaceuticals for an incredible number of uses.

A substantial psychedelic experience permanently influences your personality. On average, it produces an increase in trait Openness by a full standard deviation.
I say this as someone whose personality was improved by DMT years ago.

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Or perhaps they make me wonder why you would talk out your ass about something you obviously don't know shit about? Yes, opiates like heroin will often give you cozy feelings and make you stop giving a shit, but psilocibin is something else entirely. Have you ever asked yourself why there's virtually no psilocibin addicts or why psychedelics in general and psilocibin are some of the least used drugs and constitute a very small portion of illegal drugs being sold and used? It's because taking psilocibin mushrooms can often be a very hard experience to get trough and it's the exact opposite of escape from reality.

It can be, but in most cases you'd be better of without it. Excessive amount of stress can be very damaging for one's psyche and can completely ruin your performance.
Stressed out surgeon or police officer is more likely to make mistakes than a calm collected one.

You're not thinking clearly about the role of stress, it's not as simple as "stress bad, calm good".

There is an optimal amount if stress necessary to grow and become a productive person. That optimal amount is different for an individual depending on their physiology and personality, but the optimal amount if stress is clearly much greater than None. No stress generally means no learning, no growth, no improvement.

note also that it states half of them were already users, meaning they were likely dependent on the drug to function normally.
giving them a week of it just fed their cravings

That's ideal for flooding Europe with millions of rapefugees. It is the European trait of empathy that they are exploiting with their dead babies on beach propaganda. Open all borders man! Everyone is the same!!
If someone was working on a drug to concentrate logical, cold, rational thought and increasing aggression and group unity, it would be better.
The Netherlands, where this study took place, is apparently going to be 50% muslim births by next year. No more Dutchmen.
Extinction in a generation.

imagine believing that someone out there is dependent on magic mushrooms to function normally. it's literally a drug that makes you not even care about functioning normally.

If anything, I think psychedelics made me More aware of demographics and culture. I don't think the effects on empathy were in any manner permanent. That seemed to drop right back to baseline in short order. Openness is mainly curiosity, imgainative thinking and fondness for new experience. In the literature it's tied only moderately to creativity and does not correlate with empathy at all.

in that case, the stress could come whenever it was necessary and leave after. a constant state of stress is unnecessary.
one CAN grow without stress though.

(((white genocide))) shill

psychodelics let you see the magical side of yourself and everything, everyone else, what's "reality" in reality, and so on, and they generally free you from brainwashing.

Pshchedelics are not drugs, no matter what the "Drugs Are Bad, Mmkay?" types would have you believe. They have no experience with anything other than the people they think of as authorities (who have zero experience with psychedelics) telling them that psilocybin is a drug, and that drugs are bad, unless they are prescribed by Big Pharma. So, some idiot gets in here on an obscure chan and proves his ignorance by spouting out the same uninformed nonsense. I'll say it again..
PSILOCYBIN IS NOT A 'DRUG'.
Heroin is a drug, cocaine is a drug, alcohol is a poison – but psylocybin is not a drug.

This is now a Die Antwoord thread.

I mean, it doesn't have to be.
It could be an art & music thread. Maybe a wallpaper thread?

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K.
I could get in the mood..

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Kodomo no koro yatta koto aru yo I've done this when I was a kid
Iroaseta kioku da kouhaku bou atama ni It's a faded memory, a red and white cap on my head
ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN SEVEN! Ultraman! Ultraman Seven!

Kodomo no koro natsukashii kioku When I was a kid, a fond memory
CURRY to ka no toki ni gin no SPOON me ni ate When I eat curry and stuff, silver spoons on my eyes
ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN SEVEN! Ultraman! Ultraman Seven!

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Kodomo no koro natsukashii kioku When I was a kid, a fond memory
CURRY to ka no toki ni gin no SPOON me ni ate When I eat curry and stuff, silver spoons on my eyes
ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN SEVEN! Ultraman! Ultraman Seven!

Demo ima ja sonna koto mo wasurete But now I've forgotten all that
Nanika ni owareru you ni mainichi ikite'ru And I'm living each day like I'm being chased by something

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hey! Hey! Hey!

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I cannot have her back….

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Psilocybe Azurescens and Psilocybe Cyanescens grow where I used to live on Oregon Coast.

Tripping on mushrooms can be a positive life changing experience.

Both are smooth orange gill caps. Cyanescens have wavy caps and Azurescens are more esthetic looking.

Normally Psilocybe mushroom contain a bit of Strychnine. Taking them on a regular basis the Strychnine will build up eventually resulting in paralysis and even death. Taking them often maybe not such a good idea.

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Does Ultraman seem old yet?
How long have I planned this?

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Daddy!

I actually lived in Astoria for quite a few years and yearly enjoyed picking those exact kinds of shrooms and others.

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Kodomo no koro natsukashii kioku When I was a kid, a fond memory
CURRY to ka no toki ni gin no SPOON me ni ate When I eat curry and stuff, silver spoons on my eyes
ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN SEVEN! Ultraman! Ultraman Seven!

Demo ima ja sonna koto mo wasurete But now I've forgotten all that
Nanika ni owareru you ni mainichi ikite'ru And I'm living each day like I'm being chased by something

Nanika ni owareru you ni mainichi ikite'ru And I'm living each day like I'm being chased by something

Furikaette mo (wasurete ita ALBUM no uchi ni) Even if I look back (in the forgotten photo album)
Ano koro ni wa (baka yatteru jibun) I can't go back to those times (photos of myself doing stupid things)
Modorenai (tomodachi to waratte) Anymore (laughing with friends)
ULTRAMAN! ULTRAMAN SEVEN! Ultraman! Ultraman Seven!

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Open your eyes, maan!

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Ultraman! Ultraman; Satan!

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Hahaha

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Sing for me.

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You are will be punished severely.

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SING WITH ME!

ULTRAMAN!

You have pissed me off beyond my limits. I'll destroy you entirely despite my image and your accomplishments to control me.

Satan!

If 2000 times the radiation to kill a man didn't stop me what hope do you have?

ULTRA SAITAMAN!

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Look Closely. Look at the s on chest.

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Not all kinds of stress; not too much stress.

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Wonder woman is gone. The prophecy will continue

It's hard to believe I'm so evil when I love so much.

Power.

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I'm delivering exactly the right blow.

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ULTRA

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God's among us

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I'm only askinf because it's a joke at this point.

Give me back my magic girlfriend

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It's the power

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Power

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Court street in Chico on the 15th???

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ONE PUNCH

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El Dorado everyone. You can almost see my house.

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It's just beyond the church.

Pheenie

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One punch.

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Nothing's getting by me. I don't care if I'm at 25 percent strength.

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How dare you oppose me?

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R.i.p

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Desmond phillips

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Desmond phillips

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She's gone now.

You forfeit the world for nothing.

How noble.

How noble.

I'm back!

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And I ain't talkin' 'bout mushrooms neither…

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