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Mar 8, 2026 Psychedelics
A Single Dose of DMT Reversed Depression-Like Symptoms in Mice — By Regrowing Brain Cells
Mice put through weeks of unpredictable stress lost interest in sugar water — a standard proxy for anhedonia — and got worse at maze tasks. A single dose of DMT reversed both, and the researchers traced it to new neuron growth in the hippocampus. It's mice, not people, and a sugar-water test isn't the same as a life. But it's one more data point that psychedelics may work partly by regrowing brain cells, not just adjusting mood chemically.
Read at Translational Psychiatry