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Psilocybin Relieves Some Treatment-Resistant Depression Cases: Trial

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For years, some researchers have looked to psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin (the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms), as a potential treatment for some psychiatric conditions. The largest trial to date of psilocybin for depression, published today (November 3) in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds that a dose of synthetic psilocybin combined with counseling did alleviate symptoms for some patients. But for some participants who did respond, the effects wore off within 12 weeks of the treatment.

“It’s a big step forward for the field of psychedelic research and depression treatment,” Jimmy Potash, who oversees psychedelics research at Johns Hopkins but was not involved in the study, tells STAT. The durability of the response is “not as good as you’d like, but it’s still quite good,” he adds.

The Phase 2 clinical trial, funded in part by the mental health care startup Compass Pathways, which makes the synthetic psilocybin used in the study, included 233 patients for whom at least two depression medications had not worked. The participants were randomly assigned to receive psilocybin at one of three dosing levels: 25 mg, 10 mg, or 1 mg (used as a control). Volunteers in all three groups received counseling before and after the psilocybin use and were monitored during their experience with the drug.

Three weeks after treatment, all three groups saw a fall in their average score on a standard rating scale of depression indicators (indicating less severe cases) relative to their scores prior to treatment, according to the paper, with the largest improvement in the highest-dose group. STAT notes that 29 percent of those high-dose participants were in remission at the three-week mark, a number that dropped to 20 percent at 12 weeks, while 37 percent had their depression score halved by the three-week mark.

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“Response rates in this group with treatment-resistant depression are usually between 10 and 20%,” Guy Goodwin, Compass’s chief medical officer, tells The Guardian. “We are seeing remission rates at three weeks of about 30% … that is a very satisfactory outcome.”

Ravi Das of the University College London Institute of Mental Health, who was not involved in the study, tells Reuters that the results are positive, but highlights a potential weakness in the clinical trial. “There were an uneven number of severely depressed patients in each group; with significantly fewer severely depressed people in the apparent ‘effective’ (25mg) dose group,” he says. “This does not appear to be acknowledged in the paper.”

Additionally, 179 of the 233 participants in the study reported adverse events such as headache, nausea, and dizziness, and a few experienced suicidal ideation or self-injury. These serious side effects are not uncommon in depression studies, but Kevin McConway, a professor emeritus of applied statistics at The Open University in the UK, who was not involved in the study, tells CNN, “Remember that this is in people who were assessed not to be at significant risk of suicide when they entered the trial. The numbers were fairly small, but this is something that will need to be taken carefully into account in any later-stage trials.” 

The drug is currently being tested in two Phase 3 trials, the results of which will be released at the end of 2024 at the earliest, Goodwin tells Reuters.



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