MDMA therapy for PTSD rejected by FDA panel(nature.com)

5 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 1 comments

MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD: A randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial(nature.com)

65 points by beefman 3 years ago | 64 comments

Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds(nature.com)

255 points by gmays 2 years ago | 228 comments

Integrated Information Theory labelled pseudoscience(nature.com)

25 points by joak 3 years ago | 39 comments

Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges(nature.com)

125 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 78 comments

AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics(nature.com)

278 points by EA-3167 2 years ago | 86 comments

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines(thebeliever.net)

265 points by gaplong 5 days ago | 247 comments

A Believer magazine essay about the difficulty of tapering off and withdrawing from benzodiazepine medications.

Psilocybin bests SSRI for major depression in first long-term comparison(medscape.com)

515 points by Thomvis 2 years ago | 329 comments

Medscape conference news article on the first long-term comparison finding psilocybin outperformed escitalopram for moderate to severe major depressive disorder.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.