As it's said "The stoned ape theory is a controversial hypothesis first proposed by American ethnobotanist and mystic Terence McKenna in his 1992 book Food of the Gods. The theory holds that cognitive revolution was caused by the addition of psilocybin mushrooms, specifically the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis, into the human diet around 100,000 years ago. Using evidence based primarily on studies by Roland L. Fischer et al. from the 1960s and 1970s, he attributed much of the mental strides made by humans during the cognitive revolution to the effects of psilocybin intake found by Fischer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory
In healing anything drastic helps than anything mediocre. Drastic injuries require drastic medicines. Talking about brain injuries and the question what can be done to help fix things!
~~~~Repetitive mild head injuries incurred while playing organized sports, during car accidents and falls, or in active military service are a major health problem. These head injuries induce cognitive, motor, and behavioral deficits that can last for months and even years with an increased risk of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. There is no approved medical treatment for these types of head injuries. To this end, we tested the healing effects of the psychedelic psilocybin, as it is known to reduce neuroinflammation and enhance neuroplasticity. Using a model of mild repetitive head injury in adult female rats, we provide unprecedented data that psilocybin can reduce vasogenic edema, restore normal vascular reactivity and functional connectivity, reduce phosphorylated tau buildup, enhance levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor TrkB, and modulate lipid signaling molecules. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636248v2.full
~~~~The new findings add to the “mounting evidence [supporting] the importance of studying this treatment in rigorous clinical trials in the U.S.,” says Alan Davis, a clinical psychologist at the Ohio State University, who was not involved in the work. In 2020 Davis and his colleagues conducted a retrospective survey of 51 veterans after they received treatment with ibogaine and the psychedelic compound 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) in Mexico. They found similar reductions in the participants’ self-reported suicidal ideation, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety and symptoms of PTSD. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-powerful-psychedelic-shows-promise-for-relieving-traumatic-brain-injury
