Psilocybin Increases Brain Activity in Depressed Patients, Small

a separate smaller experiment It turned out to support the notion that psilocybin therapy, featured in the Nature Medicine article, could provide lasting benefits. In this trial, 16 patients were recruited with the knowledge that they would receive psilocybin for their treatment-resistant depression. Brain scans taken the day after the last doses were administered showed …

Brain Imaging Studies Blocked by Small Datasets, Study Findings

For two decades, researchers have used neuroimaging technology to try to determine how a person’s brain structure and function are linked to a variety of mental health conditions, from anxiety and depression to suicidal tendencies. However new paper, The research, published Wednesday in Nature, questions whether much of this research actually provides valid findings. The …

These Small, Inexpensive Devices Help Monitor Earthquakes in Haiti

When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010 and an estimated 200,000 people died, there was only one seismometer in the country. The shaking quickly overwhelmed the seismometer, an educational tool installed in a high school, recording little useful data. It was weeks before foreign seismic experts could travel to the disaster area, and …

Small Podcast Stores Surrounded by Big Tech Are Swimming With Sharks

last August, Leon Neyfakh He had a decision to make. Podcast production company Prologue Projects was working on the fifth season of the series.Fiasco” is a nonfiction narrative show about American scandals in living memory. Previous seasons of the show have been acclaimed for their gripping re-examinations of convoluted political conflicts – Bush v. Gore, …

Why Astra’s Small Rocket Launch Is a Big Deal for NASA

Four small NASA-funded satellites disappeared on their way into space after being launched on a rocket built by Astra Space, a small, publicly traded rocket company based in Alameda, Calif. there were satellites small experimental devices called cube satellitesand their loss can disrupt the research projects of the institutions that built them. But for Astra, …

‘Encanto’ #1 For The Fourth Time With Small New Competition

Disney”encantoThe soundtrack, featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, topped the Billboard album chart for the fourth time this week, and there are no big new albums to challenge it. The “Encanto” soundtrack, which has been on the market since November, reached the equivalent of 113,000 sales in the United States in its 10th week on the …

‘All Creatures Big and Small’ Return with More Creatures

RIPON, England – Samuel West was limping. “A cow stood on my feet,” he said. “Still!” Faulty hooves are among the occupational hazards on the set.All Creatures Big and SmallPastoral series set in Yorkshire in the 1930s. But here in late June, here on an intermittently sunny day, they presented a special problem for West, …

You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Strange Small’ Mars Radishes

In the historical imagination, astronomers look through telescopes and photonic wisdom flows at the speed of light. By taking what they can, they passively receive information about distant stars and planets. These objects are fixed and their conditions cannot be changed. But not all astronomy works like that. For example, planetary and exoplanet scientists don’t …