
282: The Science of Happiness and How to Extract More Joy Out of Every Day | Arthur Brooks, PhD
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The Role of Psilocybin in the Treatment of Dementia
I fear that. I have a lot of mental illness and psychosis and dementia in my family. And there's not enough research that suggests that this is safe for people who have those tendencies. For dementia though, I would be inclined to think that psilocybin mushrooms would potentially help. Well, most likely when we have all of the research, it'll suggest that it helps some and not others. And it's dangerous for others. That would be the same for any drug. You know, exactly. It'd be weird if we didn't find that quite frankly.
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