Psychedelic Therapy History, Cold Showers, Only Child Myth

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

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Learn about psychedelics research in the 1950s; cold shower benefits; and an inaccurate stereotype about the only child.

Thousands of patients were treated with psychedelics in the 1950s by Cameron Duke

Fuentes, J. J., Fonseca, F., Elices, M., Farré, M., & Torrens, M. (2020). Therapeutic Use of LSD in Psychiatry: A Systematic Review of Randomized-Controlled Clinical Trials. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00943
Lattin, D. (2017, January 3). How the War on Drugs Halted Research Into the Potential Benefits of Psychedelics. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/the-war-on-drugs-halted-research-into-the-potential-benefits-of-psychedelics.html
Rick, D. (2011). Dr. Leary’s Concord Prison Experiment: A 34-Year Follow-up Study. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02791072.1998.10399715
The ’60s Are Gone, But Psychedelic Research Trip Continues. (2014, March 9). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/288285764/the-60s-are-gone-but-psychedelic-research-trip-continues
Yensen, R., & Dryer, D. A. (1992, September 24). Thirty Years of Psychedelic Research: The Spring Grove Experiment and Its Sequels. ResearchGate; unknown. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309477954_Thirty_Years_of_Psychedelic_Research_The_Spring_Grove_Experiment_and_Its_Sequels
Johns Hopkins Medicine Receives First Federal Grant for Psychedelic Treatment Research in 50 years. (2021, October 18). Johns Hopkins Medicine Newsroom. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/johns-hopkins-medicine-receives-first-federal-grant-for-psychedelic-treatment-research-in-50-years

Are cold showers actually worth it? by Cameron Duke

Bottoms, L. (2021, September 28). Cold showers are said to be good for you – here’s what the evidence shows. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/cold-showers-are-said-to-be-good-for-you-heres-what-the-evidence-shows-167822
Buijze, G. A., Sierevelt, I. N., van der Heijden, B. C. J. M., Dijkgraaf, M. G., & Frings-Dresen, M. H. W. (2016). The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLOS ONE, 11(9), e0161749. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161749
Janský, L., Pospíšilová, D., Honzová, S., Uličný, B., Šrámek, P., Zeman, V., & Kamínková, J. (1996). Immune system of cold-exposed and cold-adapted humans. European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, 72-72(5-6), 445–450. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00242274

Only children aren't more selfish than kids with siblings by Steffie Drucker

Only Children Are No More Selfish Than Those With Siblings. (2021, October 7). Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/10/07/only-children-are-no-more-selfish-than-those-with-siblings/
Zheng, X., Su, Q., Jing, C., & Zhang, Y.-Y. (2021). They Are Not Little Emperors: Only Children Are Just as Altruistic as Non-Only Children. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 194855062110381. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211038190
Higuera, V. (2019, October 23). Only Child Syndrome: Proven Reality or Long-Standing Myth? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/only-child-syndrome
one-child policy | Definition, Start Date, Effects, & Facts | Britannica. (2021). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/one-child-policy
Fifield, A. (2019, May 3). Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese are still reluctant to have more. Washington Post; The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/beijings-one-child-policy-is-gone-but-many-chinese-are-still-reluctant-to-have-more/2019/05/02/c722e568-604f-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html
Gallagher, J. (2020, July 14). Fertility rate: “Jaw-dropping” global crash in children being born. BBC News; BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53409521
BBC News. (2021, May 31). China allows three children in major policy shift. BBC News; BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57303592

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:06.7	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.8	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:09.2	Today you'll learn about why thousands of patients were treated with psychedelics in the 1950s, whether cold showers are
0:15.3	actually worth taking, and why the stereotype of the selfish only child
0:19.8	doesn't hold up.
0:20.8	Let's satisfy some curiosity. The idea of using psychedelics in medical
0:26.4	settings is all the rage these days, but it's nothing new. In the 1950s
0:32.3	scientists performed pioneering experiments with hallucinogenic drugs.
0:37.9	They found tons of promising therapeutic applications for psychedelics, but the research was stopped almost as quickly as it began,
0:47.0	and it wasn't because of science, but because of politics.
0:52.0	Between 1950 and 1965, roughly 40,000 people were prescribed one of many forms of
1:01.0	LSD therapy for mental health conditions like schizophrenia,
1:05.0	psychopathy, and neurosis. Now at the time this was mainstream medical
1:10.9	science taking place at multi-million dollar research facilities and
1:15.6	esteemed institutions like Harvard University.
1:19.4	Altogether, this research into the potential therapeutic effects of
1:23.4	LSD and other hallucinogens led to more than 1,000 academic papers,
1:29.2	six international conferences, and big long-term research studies like the Spring Grove
1:36.0	experiment.
1:37.5	To this day, that experiment is the largest ever attempted on the therapeutic effects of psychedelics.
1:45.0	Now, the research was promising, it had its issues.
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