Psilocybin in the treatment of depression with Dr. Ishrat Husain

“It's not necessarily all sunshine and rainbows.”

A major, new study in The New England Journal of Medicine considers psilocybin and its potential for refractory depression. It’s received enthusiastic media coverage. Breakthrough drug? Overhyped headlines? Today, on Quick Takes, Dr. David Gratzer is joined by one of the study co-authors, Dr. Ishrat Husain Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and lead of the Mood Disorder Service at CAMH, to delve deeper into this headline-grabbing research.

During their discussion we learn:

• how to talk to your patients asking about using psilocybin therapeutically
• the encouraging results of the study – and the adverse effects as well
• how practical it would be to scale up the study into current treatment algorithms
• and if microdosing is really all its hyped-up to be.

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