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Microdosing Psilocybin - Repeated low doses of psilocybin increase resilience to stress, lower compulsive actions, and strengthen cortical connections to the paraventricular thalamic nucleus in rats (osf.io)
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Dose was 0.05mg/kg administered every other day.

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[–] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been plenty of studies on psilocybin with human subjects. None of them included vivisection or bisection. We have other ways of testing this sort of thing.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right.

But the placebo affect makes positive outcomes harder to measure with microdosing, as you said.

I think we do need more studies on humans, and while I don't like that they killed animals I keep as pets, I do hope this will encourage more human studies.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Also the placebo effect is harder to tackle in this instance as people are often able to tell if they actually got psilocybin administered or not.