Appetite for change: How psilocybin reshapes food reward learning through striatal dopamine function
bioRxiv May 18, 2026 Kyna Conn, Ngok Wong, Serenay Sunnetci et al.
Abstract Psilocybin has emerged as a promising therapeutic agent for psychiatric disorders characterised by cognitive rigidity and disrupted reward processing, including anorexia nervosa. While its pro-cognitive effects have been mechanistically probed almost exclusively through serotonin receptor subtype antagonism, the downstream contributions of dopaminergic systems to these outcomes remain...