Summary
ABSTRACT / PROJECT SUMMARY Chronic stress is thought to play a role in multiple neuropsychiatric disorders. Standard pharmacological treatments for stress-related disorders can take up to several months to elicit a therapeutic response and can produce long-term undesirable off-target effects. A single dose of the psychedelic drug psilocybin has been shown to rapidly promote long-lasting therapeutic effects in humans and in chronically stressed rodents. However, the neural circuit mechanisms underlying the lasting changes induced by psilocybin in healthy and chronically stressed brains remain
