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Shroom Brain Electricians

July 28, 2026 Arjun Nair

Got fungus on the brain? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Your brain works because different regions constantly send messages to each other. It doesn’t work as well when we’re depressed. But Psilocybin from certain mushrooms, may help by changing which brain pathways grow stronger.

Anti-Smoking Trip

January 1, 2019 Loh Down Staff

Can magic mushrooms… help you quit smoking? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying: Go ask Alice! Or ask Matthew Johnson, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His study enrolled 15 volunteers who had been smokers for an average of 30 years. All had