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80-year-old woman with Alzheimer's took mushrooms and started speaking again

https://www.microdos.in/en/research/alzheimers-case-report-psilocybin-speech
17•LaurensDerisks•1h ago

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arcfour•51m ago
It sounds like it could be an interesting case but the weird AI slop writing is a bit much to trudge through.

I mean really:

> What improved (reported)

> Speech, recognition, dressing, continence — multiple functional domains, not a single symptom.

> What we cannot conclude

> No control group, no formal neuroimaging, no established causality. Spontaneous fluctuation and context cannot be ruled out.

Oh gee, thanks for the reminder on how the scientific method works, Claude. That's most certainly not something you can count on your audience being familiar with already if you're writing about a...medical case study, of course.

And why are these two points formatted as two cards with excessively long subheadings instead of something normal like a "paragraph?!"

jacquesm•49m ago
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1...
whalesalad•47m ago
I hope that at some point in the future there are 'hotels' all over the land where you can go and trip for half the day in a safe and supportive environment. There is so much healing potential in psilocybin.
b3lvedere•46m ago
A Dutch website using AI to sell you magic mushrooms catered just for you. And serving you AI harvested blogs, journals and other weblinks just to explain to you how awesome psilocybin is. Even ordering goes via Claude! :)

"Hey Claude. How can i sell drugs on the interwebs!?"

jeffybefffy519•37m ago
The actual link https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/1... is fascinating read. Really shows how we have been overly focused on the wrong treatment and not explored some alternative low risk therapies for many conditions.

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