Psilocybin for clinical indications: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psychedelic drugs have been of interest in medicine since the early 1950s. There has recently been a resurgence of interest in psychedelics.

Aims

The objective of this study is to determine the extent of the available literature on psilocybin for medical indications including the designs used, study characteristics, indications studied, doses, and authors' conclusions. We identify areas for further study where there are research gaps.

Methods

We conducted a systematic scoping review of clinical indications for psilocybin, encompassing psychiatric and medical conditions. We systematically searched Medline and Embase using keywords related to psilocybin. We reviewed titles and texts in duplicate using Covidence software. We extracted data individually in dupl

SUBMITTER: Madden K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481402 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature