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Characterizing psilocybin’s effects on nociception and thermoregulation in preclinical pain models

Stanford Digital Repository April 30, 2026 Tyler E. Girard, Boris Dov Heifets, Robert Morris Sapolsky et al.

Psilocybin is a drug with renewed clinical interest because of its potential to treat psychiatric diseases. Preliminary human data suggest that psilocybin could be used to treat chronic pain, but whether psilocybin produces direct analgesia remains unclear, and existing human data have not resolved how it works if it does. The preclinical literature has conflicting results, with some studies...