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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work

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Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Many questions remain about the formerly taboo chemicals that are being used to treat trauma and depression.
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    Hell there are a bunch of receptors in the brain that are called “cannabinoid receptors”, because at the time of their discovery the only thing we knew about them was that they were activated by cannabis. Since then, we’ve developed a slightly wider understanding of their function in the body’s normal operation, and yet the name still stands.

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      the only thing we knew about them was that they were activated by cannabis.

      I probably should be sleeping. I know this because as I was reading, my eyes lost focus a bit and I read that as “activated by cannibals.” Cue the confusion.

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        “activated by cannibals.”

        Kuru has entered the chat.

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          https://tenor.com/view/check-please-checkplease-space-balls-gif-26792498

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