Psilocybin Sparks Hope: Alzheimer's Patient Speaks Again After Single Dose

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After a decade of cognitive and functional decline, an 80-year-old patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease showed remarkable signs of progress.

All it took was a single dose of an experimental hallucinogen to get her speaking more than she had in years — and that’s just the top of the list of her improvements.