Psilocybin with psychological support improves emotional face recognition in treatment-resistant depression
Psychopharmacology October 30, 2017 J. B. Stroud, Tom P. Freeman, Robert Leech et al. 102 citations
RATIONALE: Depressed patients robustly exhibit affective biases in emotional processing which are altered by SSRIs and predict clinical outcome. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to investigate whether psilocybin, recently shown to rapidly improve mood in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), alters patients' emotional processing biases. METHODS: Seventeen patients with...