Woman Crippled by Alzheimer's Resumes Lively Conversations After Psilocybin Mushrooms Unlocked Her Memory

A Japanese American woman in her 80s who had lived with Alzheimer's for a decade regained speech, bladder control, and motor function after a single dose of psilocybin, in a case study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

This is a single-patient case report, not a clinical trial. Encouraging as this is, one person's striking recovery doesn't establish that psilocybin treats or reverses Alzheimer's, and more controlled studies and tests are necessary.