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Woman with Alzheimer’s shows improvements after taking magic mushrooms in single-person study (www.ctvnews.ca)
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[–] 64 points 4 months ago

I don't "do drugs" anymore. From now on, I'm "initiating a single-person study."

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    [–] 42 points 4 months ago* (9 children)

    As usual, a case study is basically the bottom of the barrel you can get for efficacy of a treatment that's still published science. It doesn't mean it's bad science (it can often be quite useful for establishing future studies); it just means that it really shouldn't be advertised to the general public until there's e.g. a good meta-analysis.

    Anyway, with that said, here's a link to the case study since CTV's seems to be malformatted.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I wish the qualities of evidence tiers were taught in (at least) high school. Especially as so much information is increasingly at our fingertips. That plus moral philosophy.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    As someone educated in statistics, I have a pretty good idea about what you can learn from a sample size of one. It's about as close to nothing as you can get without it quite being nothing.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Everyone should be doing shrooms.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Except pilots, people driving vehicles, surgeons, EMTs, and quite a lot of other people, not to mention those of us who have a rough time on psychedelics.

    Nothing suits everyone, and even for those who benefit from it, there's an appropriate time and place.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Except people with dormant or active mental illness.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Idk I've found shrooms to really help with my depression. Obviously with mental illness you should be careful about it more so than usual though

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    A close friend of mine, in his late 70s, was experiencing increasingly uniform, flat moods. This happens sometime to older people, due to neurotransmitter depletion. He microdosed on shrooms for a month and was back to his old, vibrant self for the better part of a year afterwards.

    Another single-person study, but I give this anecdata a bit more weight because I know the guy well. If that's a placebo effect, I still want some.

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    • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Single person study? Sounds totally legit and should be immediately rolled out to everyone. Clearly nothing bad could happen. /s

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Doesn’t “single person study” effectively mean they didn't die?

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    "100% of participants saw improvements in their Alzheimers when given mushrooms". That title is much more attention grabbing.

    All this study proves is the 1 person who was studied out of the 55 million people who have Alzheimer's, saw a temporary improvement by taking a high dose of mushrooms.

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