C360 Psilocybin Lessens Treatment-Resistant Depression Symptoms

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What's with the domain? This is the second or third HN post I've seen in the past week where it's directly off AWS, and I think like-topics as well.

It seems like spam. I wonder if the content is stolen or if it’s AI generated.

This topic is real and there’s lots of great publications that should be linked here instead.

Like Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-023-01648-7.pdf

Ah, my favorite reputable source for health news ... http://elbtonginx-251549771.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com/ [Not Secure]

...from 2022

> single dose of a proprietary, synthetic formulation of psilocybin

What?! Psilocybin is being synthesized?

I had never heard of "C360", the name for the psilocybin administered, and was curious because the doses seemed low compared to standard mushroom weight, which is obvious if the psilocybin itself has been synthesized/concentrated and you aren't dealing with mass of fruiting bodies.

It's frankly a bit of a bummer to see "proprietary" attached to something that can be found in a field under cow shit, but I can only hope the results as have been seen in other incurable depression studies help others in the end.

Yes, Compass Pathways has been synthesizing it for quite a while. It’s been used in several university studies over the past few years and we’re now seeing the results.

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