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Psilocybin for OCD: What an Early Study Found
A look at an early study testing whether psilocybin is safe and helpful for people with hard-to-treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Source Research Papers
Citations in APA 7 format. All studies were sourced from peer-reviewed journals via Google Scholar.
Moreno, F. A., Wiegand, C. B., Taitano, E. K., & Delgado, P. L. (2006). Safety, tolerability, and efficacy of psilocybin in 9 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67(11), 1735–1740. https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.v67n1110
🟡 Early evidenceSupportive
Bottom line
In an early test with nine people who had hard-to-treat OCD, psilocybin was safe and briefly reduced symptoms — promising enough to justify larger studies.
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