Stress & Immunity, Crop Resilience, Psychedelic Scale

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about the surprising effect our immune system has on our emotional health, a new discovery about the biological clock of plants, and how researchers are rediscovering the science of psychedelics.

Stress & Immunity

“Mount Sinai Study Shows That Circulating Immune Cells Drawn to the Brain During Stress Can Control Emotional Behaviors.” Mt. Sinai. 2024.
“Major Depressive Disorder.” by Navneet Bains & Sara Abdijadid. 2023.
“Circulating myeloid-derived MMP8 in stress susceptibility and depression.” by Flurin Cathomas, et al. 2024.

Crop Resilience

“USC researchers uncover biological circuit that protects plants from extreme conditions.” EurekAlert! 2024.
“Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Supply.” EPA. 2023.
“The interplay between the circadian clock and abiotic stress responses mediated by ABF3 and CCA1/LHY.” by Tong Liang, et al. 2024.

Psychedelic Scale

“An intriguing psychedelic assessment is back from the dead, thanks to Swiss scientists.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
“The Psychedelic Integration Scales: Tools for Measuring Psychedelic Integration Behaviors and Experiences.” by Tomas Frymann, et al. 2022.
“The revival of the psychedelic experience scale: Revealing its extended-mystical, visual, and distressing experiential spectrum with LSD and psilocybin studies.” by Kurt Stocker, et al. 2023.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:11.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.4	Welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind if you're a loyal listener welcome back
0:18.9	Today you'll learn about the surprising effect our immune system has on our emotional health, a new discovery
0:24.7	about the biological clock of plants, and how researchers are rediscovering the science of
0:30.6	psychedelics.
0:31.6	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:35.0	Researchers at Mount Sinai in New York have discovered an unexpected mechanism that
0:39.3	boosts the effects of stress on our brains, and not in a good way.
0:44.0	All right, we've talked a lot about stress
0:45.8	and its effects on our brains and our emotions
0:48.2	and it's, I don't think it's ever been good.
0:51.1	So what makes this different? Well, to oversimplify it a bit this
0:54.1	discovery goes bone deep but let's back up a bit. So researchers have long
0:58.9	known that lots of people who suffer from neuropsychiatric disorders like
1:02.4	major depressive disorder
1:05.7	often have a certain level of inflammation associated with it.
1:09.6	And often those disorders are stress induced.
1:12.1	Right, as I understand it, stress often just leads to inflammation, so that makes sense.
1:17.0	Exactly.
1:18.0	But the source of that inflammation was always thought to be in the brain, right?
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