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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 14, 2025 at 05:13PM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
The research team at CDP had a great time at MHSRS 2025! The CDP research team had the privilege of sharing our important work through two oral presentations and five posters. We truly enjoyed connecting with so many of our valued collaborators and new contacts. #MHSRS2025 https://t.co/Wwg2dWrKs0
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 14, 2025 at 10:12AM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
The research team at CDP had a great time at MHSRS 2025! The CDP research team had the privilege of sharing our important work through two oral presentations and five posters. We truly enjoyed connecting with so many of our valued collaborators and new contacts. #MHSRS2025
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 13, 2025 at 01:19PM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
"Sleep isn’t just a personal health issue for service members; it’s a mission-critical factor that affects unit cohesion, operational performance, and overall force readiness." Read the full blog by Jaime Rodden. https://t.co/wkhx6W5Jx1
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 07, 2025 at 11:57AM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
Jaime Rodden is proud to share her latest blog post exploring the biopsychosocial impact of sleep deprivation on military readiness!
“Sleep Isn’t Optional, It’s Operational”: https://t.co/Ne1KMekU76
This week, she also had the opportunity to present this poster at #MHSRS. https://t.co/lbW9f31Uek
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 06, 2025 at 08:18AM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
Attention MHSRS attendees.... Join Dr. Maegan Willing, CDP research psychologist, as she discusses the relationship between moral injury and nightmare distress. Today at 1345 in Coastal B. #MHSRS2025 #WeAreHJF #MilMed
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 06, 2025 at 07:09AM
SOURCE: THE CENTER FOR DEPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGYDirect article link at end of text block below.
Join the CDP team at MHSRS as they present 5 posters at today's session. Stop by posters #105, #109, #200, #428, #900 to learn more about our recent research projects and ongoing dissemination efforts to support the Warfighter. #MHSRS2025 #WeAreHJF #MilMed
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
DATE: August 04, 2025 at 11:27PM
SOURCE: MILIARY PSYCHOLOGY JOURNAL: APA DIVISION 19TITLE: Opportunities for enhanced suicide and suicidality surveillance in the Australian Army
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08995605.2025.2525657?af=R
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
See what’s new in VA mental health care
Find VA mental health resources for quitting tobacco, depression, traumatic brain injury, and more. [][How a PTSD Recovery Program Changed His Life](https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.maketheconnection.net%2Fstories%2F978%2F%3Futm_campaign=gmh_august_2025_newsletter%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=text_header/1/01000198703e998e-3d5d6aef-6dea-43a7-a8c7-b404896fbd1c-000000/QXiTVfp-70Mk-HppTInIWEN6dEkqnlT0937MdDEV6qU=416)
After the Army, Kenneth attended school and began to experience PTSD symptoms that interfered with his studies. He sought mental health support through VA, where treatment helped him work through his challenges with PTSD, substance misuse, and family issues.
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People who smoke are more likely than nonsmokers to experience anxiety, panic, or depression. Quitting can help mental health medications work better, since tobacco smoke changes how your body absorbs certain medications.
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VA offers several effective therapy options for depression. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you break negative thought patterns and build new skills. Acceptance and commitment therapy empowers you to focus on what matters most. Not sure what fits? Explore more options at VA.
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Mild TBI can cause headaches, fatigue, nausea, trouble sleeping, dizziness, or memory problems. More severe TBI may induce ongoing headaches, confusion, seizures, repeated vomiting, slurred speech, or weakness in your arms or legs. If you notice these symptoms, VA is here to help.
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[Support for Older Veterans and Their Families](https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.mentalhealth.va.gov%2Folder-veterans%2Findex.asp%3Futm_campaign=gmh_august_2025_newsletter%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=text_header/1/01000198703e998e-3d5d6aef-6dea-43a7-a8c7-b404896fbd1c-000000/KxuTXGN5YcBKndUl-ZJEXRvXt5OrveG0eiIsqPkbDPQ=416)
On average, Veterans are older than the general U.S. population: almost half are age 65 or older. VA has many programs to support older Veterans and their families and caregivers. VA also provides a range of specialized geriatric services for Veterans and families to help them cope with complex medical, cognitive, and mental health conditions in later life.
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TRIGGER WARNING: Military Psychology
Turning the page on a challenging chapter
Learn how this Veteran broke free from addiction and became a better role model for his kids. []Troy joined the military as a fourth-generation Marine and deployed all over the world, including Afghanistan. Rather than face his traumas and challenges, he buried himself in work and [began to use drugs and alcohol](https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.maketheconnection.net%2Fsymptoms%2Falcohol-or-drug-misuse%2F%3Futm_campaign=mtc_FV_07_31_25%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=text_body/1/01000198611119cb-677e7570-d10b-4ae1-aefe-bcb870fc761e-000000/sMhQ420YcpFP1JUVTn1BgnX1gilzwmBu9XasEUlO--g=416) in an attempt to cope. His behavior got him into trouble and led him to [Veterans Treatment Court](https://links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2F%2Fwww.maketheconnection.net%2Fevents%2Ffinancial-legal-issues%2F%3Futm_campaign=mtc_FV_07_31_25%26utm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery%26utm_term=text_body/1/01000198611119cb-677e7570-d10b-4ae1-aefe-bcb870fc761e-000000/BFUdUIVzmLH-oGDQ2Qeh5e2GpAyQy3oUYTBLl-Ajle8=416). Talk therapy and a system of support helped him address his challenges, become sober, and be a positive role model for his children.
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DATE: November 18, 2025 at 06:00PM
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Analysts see tide turning toward @Masimo in @Apple #patent war
#medtech #patentlitigation #patentdispute #pulseox #SPO2
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DATE: January 12, 2026 at 05:34PM
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#Neuromodulation for MDD heads home
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Threatening men’s masculinity does not make them more politically conservative, new study finds
A recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science suggests that threatening a man’s sense of masculinity might not cause him to adopt more conservative or stereotypically masculine political beliefs. By testing thousands of participants across the United States, researchers found no consistent evidence that making men feel insecure about their gender identity changes their political attitudes.
In both popular culture and politics, many commentators assert that society is experiencing a crisis of masculinity. Some politicians have even made this idea a central part of their campaign platforms, suggesting that traditional men are under attack. Sociologists and psychologists sometimes attribute the growth in far-right extremism and resistance to women’s equality to a concept known as masculinity threat. Masculinity threat is the theory that manhood is a precarious, unstable status that men must constantly earn and defend.
According to this theory, womanhood is often viewed as a natural biological development, while masculine identity is understood to be more fragile. When men feel their gender identity is challenged, they tend to overcompensate by engaging in extreme demonstrations of stereotypical masculinity. This overcompensation can manifest as physical aggression or increased risk-taking. Some scientists suggest it can also influence a person’s social and political viewpoints.
To test this idea, a highly cited 2013 study measured how men reacted when their masculinity was questioned in a laboratory setting. That original study found that men who experienced a gender identity threat tended to express more support for war, homophobia, and dominance over other groups. The authors of that older study reasoned that endorsing conservative views allows men to reaffirm their gender identity.
Because the 2013 paper became highly influential, the scientists behind the new study wanted to see if they could reproduce those original findings. Replicating older studies is an ordinary part of the scientific process, providing evidence regarding whether previous discoveries hold up under different conditions.
“This article is a replication of a highly cited study published in the American Journal of Sociology,” explained study author Claire Gothreau, a postdoctoral researcher at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. “I’ve always found the idea of ‘masculinity threat’ both fascinating and compelling, but I wondered whether the relationship identified in the original study would hold up in a more representative sample.”
Gothreau, who will join the faculty at Lebanon Valley College as an assistant professor in August 2026, noted the cultural timing of the work. “Given the current cultural conversation around masculinity and the so-called ‘masculinity crisis,’ it felt like an especially important moment to revisit and rigorously test these claims,” she said.
The researchers conducted their new experiment using a nationally representative sample of 2,774 American adults, which included 2,073 men. They specifically oversampled men because the theory of masculinity threat focuses primarily on male reactions and male insecurities. Participants were randomly divided into different groups and asked to complete an online survey. The survey was designed to measure how strongly participants identified with a variety of masculine and feminine personality traits.
After taking the personality survey, participants in the main experimental group received randomly generated, deceptive feedback. Men in this group were falsely told that their scores fell into the feminine range, while women were told their scores were in the masculine range. This false feedback was designed to induce a sense of gender threat. Another group of participants received accurate feedback that simply placed them in the average range for their gender, acting as a control group for baseline comparison.
To improve upon the 2013 research, the scientists added two new experimental conditions to their study. In one group, participants received feedback that was only slightly altered from their real scores. The researchers included this condition to make the threat feel more realistic to people who might doubt a completely fake, extreme result. This helped ensure that participants actually believed the feedback they were reading.
In another group, participants took a popular culture trivia quiz and were told they performed poorly. This general knowledge threat was designed to test an alternative psychological explanation. The researchers wanted to see if people just become more conservative when they feel bad about themselves in general, rather than feeling specifically insecure about their gender.
After receiving their feedback, all participants answered a series of questions about their political and social views. The researchers measured their support for the Iraq War, their views on gay rights, and their desire to purchase a sports utility vehicle. They also measured participants’ preference for traditionalism, which is a desire to stick with known, safe routines rather than trying new things.
The survey also tested participants on their support for system justification and social dominance. System justification is the psychological tendency to defend and rationalize the current social and political system as fair and legitimate. Social dominance is the belief that some groups of people are naturally superior to others and should maintain control over inferior groups.
The scientists also included new questions to reflect modern political debates that were not as prominent in 2013. These updated questions asked participants about their views on transgender rights, legal immigration, and the legalization of marijuana. They also measured whether participants wanted to buy an electric car and if they supported preferential hiring policies to help women overcome past discrimination.
The researchers found no consistent evidence that experiencing a masculinity threat changed men’s political attitudes. “We really went into this being completely ambivalent about what the results would be, so I would say no, nothing surprised me about our results!” Gothreau said.
Men who were told they scored in the feminine range did not show increased support for the Iraq War or homophobia compared to men in the control group. They also did not show a greater desire to buy a sports utility vehicle or endorse more traditionalist beliefs. The alternative experimental conditions also failed to produce the expected changes in political beliefs.
While the study provides evidence that masculinity threat does not easily shift political beliefs, the scientists note a few potential limitations. “The first one is simply that the failed replication could be due to any number of design differences between the original study,” Gothreau explained. “These include things like timing, measurement, sample composition, and other subtle design details.”
She noted that while the team accounted for alternative explanations for the lack of an effect, they could not account for everything. Moving the experiment to an online format with a diverse, national sample might have changed how strongly participants felt the threat. It is possible that being told about a feminine test score face to face has a stronger emotional impact than reading the same feedback on a computer screen.
Gothreau also warned against broad conclusions based solely on this new data. “One potential misinterpretation would be concluding that ‘masculinity threat has no relevance to politics,'” she said. “That would go too far.”
“Other researchers, including Sarah DiMuccio and Eric Knowles, as well as Brian Harrison and Melissa Michelson, have found evidence linking masculinity threat to greater support for policies such as the death penalty, military aggression, and hostility toward transgender people,” Gothreau explained. “At this point, the broader evidence is mixed, which makes this an active and important area for continued research.”
Reflecting on the overall project, Gothreau highlighted two major takeaways for the public. “First, scientific findings do not always replicate, and that’s actually a normal and valuable part of science,” she said. “A failed replication doesn’t necessarily mean the original findings were ‘wrong.'”
Instead, replication studies help refine scientific theories by showing that certain effects might only emerge under specific conditions.
“Second, our findings suggest that we still have a great deal to learn about how masculinity shapes political beliefs and behavior,” Gothreau added. “The relationship appears to be more nuanced and context-dependent than is often assumed.”
Looking ahead, the researchers plan to continue investigating gender and politics from new angles. “I’m currently shifting from studying masculinity threat specifically to exploring how self-perceived masculinity relates to political attitudes, ideological orientations, and political participation more broadly,” Gothreau said.
She plans to focus on a concept she calls the masculinity gap. “I’m especially interested in what I call the ‘masculinity gap,’ the discrepancy between how masculine people see themselves and how masculine they ideally want to be, and whether that gap can help us better understand phenomena like political extremism, grievance politics, and anti-egalitarian attitudes,” she explained.
The researchers noted that conducting this kind of extensive testing requires substantial support. “This research would not have been possible without the grant we received from the Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences grant, which is funded by the National Science Foundation,” Gothreau said. “Access to funding opportunities like these is absolutely critical for early-career researchers like myself, especially for conducting large-scale, high-quality public opinion research.”
The study, “A Replication and Extension of Willer et al. (2013), Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis,” was authored by Claire Gothreau and Nicholas Haas.
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Estrogen levels may dictate how the brain reacts to psychedelics, new animal study indicates
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Psilocybin induces different behavioral responses in rats depending on their age and female reproductive cycles. Treating young rats with the drug, however, does not alter their behavior later in life. These outcomes indicate that psychedelic therapies may need to be customized for different patient demographics to ensure they work safely and effectively. The findings were published in the journal Neuropharmacology.
Rates of mood disorders and anxiety disorders continue to rise globally. Standard medications, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, act as the most common first line of defense for these health issues. These daily medications can take weeks or even months to provide noticeable relief. They also fail to alleviate symptoms for a large portion of the people taking them, pushing medical researchers to investigate psychedelic drugs as alternative treatments.
Clinical trials suggest psilocybin might act faster, require fewer doses, and offer longer lasting relief than standard antidepressants. When a person or animal consumes psilocybin, the body rapidly breaks it down into a chemical called psilocin, which enters the brain and attaches to specific docking stations on brain cells called serotonin receptors. Activating these receptors alters consciousness, mood, and perception while promoting neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s physical ability to form new cell connections and rewire old pathways.
Historically, most studies exploring these potential therapies rely almost entirely on adult male test subjects. This blind spot exists even though major depressive episodes are notably more common in women than in men. These psychiatric conditions also frequently emerge during human adolescence, and the teenage years represent a unique period of massive brain development.
During this developmental window, brains undergo a restructuring process where massive numbers of connections between neurons are formed and then intentionally pruned away. Serotonin systems play a massive role in guiding this physical restructuring. Introducing a potent drug that alters serotonin signaling could theoretically disrupt a typical growth trajectory. A.L. Zylko, Matthew S. McMurray, and their colleagues at Miami University designed a study to evaluate these overlooked areas in psychedelic medicine.
The research team observed how rats of different ages reacted to a single dose of psilocybin. The specific psilocybin used in the study was synthesized in a laboratory using bioengineered bacteria. They gave adolescent rats either a harmless water solution or the manufactured drug. They also administered the exact same substances to fully grown adult rats to provide a baseline for comparison.
After administering the substances through a feeding tube, the researchers placed each animal in a clear observation cage and recorded their behavior on video for half an hour. They watched for a rapid, side-to-side shaking movement of the head and body. This behavior, resembling a wet dog shaking off water, is a standard marker used to measure hallucination-like states in rodents. Activating the specific serotonin receptors targeted by psilocybin reliably triggers this distinct shaking motion.
The adult rats displayed a robust increase in this behavior within five minutes of receiving the substance. The adolescent rats, on the other hand, barely reacted at all. They did not show the typical rapid head movements associated with the drug. This outcome was consistent across testing days for both early adolescent and late adolescent test groups.
The researchers then let all the young rats grow to adulthood. They wanted to see if brief exposure to the drug during a sensitive developmental period would change their adult brains in noticeable ways. Once the rats reached maturity, the team ran the subjects through a series of behavioral testing paradigms.
One test placed the animals on an elevated zero maze to measure their anxiety. This apparatus is a raised, circular track featuring open sections without walls alongside enclosed, sheltered sections. Rats instinctively fear exposed heights, meaning animals spending more time exploring the open sections show lower anxiety levels. The team found that rats previously given the psychedelic explored the track exactly like the rats given only water.
Another assessment tested how well the rats could adapt to changing rules. This task measures behavioral flexibility, a cognitive trait often impaired in individuals suffering from severe depression. The researchers restricted the animals’ food intake, then taught the hungry rats to press specific levers inside a testing chamber to receive a sugar pellet. One lever provided a sweet reward most of the time, while the other rarely dispensed an item.
Once the rats learned to favor the reliable lever, the experimenters switched the rules, making the rare lever the highly rewarding one. The animals had to figure out that the environment had changed and alter their strategy. The rats exposed to psilocybin during their youth learned the new rules just as quickly as their unexposed peers.
Finally, the researchers gave these grown rats a fresh dose of the psychedelic. They recorded their behavior to see if early adolescent exposure permanently altered their brain’s sensitivity to the chemical. Again, the early exposure made no difference in their physical response. The matured rats reacted just like adults experiencing the drug for the exact first time.
While analyzing the adult test groups, the research team noticed a clear division between the sexes. Adult female rats exhibited the shaking motion much more frequently than the adult male rats. To understand this difference, the researchers launched a secondary study focusing entirely on the female reproductive cycle.
In female rodents, this process is called the estrous cycle, and it heavily influences the structure and chemistry of the mammalian brain. The cycle involves rising and falling levels of hormones like estrogen. The researchers tracked the cycles of adult female rats for two weeks to establish their individual biological rhythms. Then, they administered psilocybin during two distinct phases of the cycle.
They tested the rats during a phase characterized by relatively low estrogen levels, called diestrus. They also tested them during a phase with peak estrogen levels, known as proestrus. The results showed a clear fluctuation in drug sensitivity that tracked directly with the hormonal shifts. Females in the low-estrogen phase displayed a higher number of shaking responses compared to when they were in the high-estrogen phase.
The researchers note that hormonal changes may alter how serotonin receptors function inside the brain. Estrogen levels might change the exact location of these receptors, pulling them off the cell surface and hiding them inside the cells where the psychedelic chemicals cannot easily reach them. Estrogen might also alter the cellular chain reactions that usually happen immediately after the drug binds to the receptor.
The researchers outline several limitations to their experimental findings. The lack of shaking behavior in the younger rats does not guarantee that the youngsters experienced no effects from the drug at all. Adolescent rats might process the drug physically faster or express the neurological effects through entirely different physical movements than adults. Preliminary tests hinted that the overall baseline number of serotonin receptors does not change drastically between age groups, but the measurement methods used had technical limitations.
Discovering that early exposure does not cause long lasting behavioral harm is a positive result, but the researchers note that developing brains naturally possess high levels of plasticity. These naturally high levels might hide the subtle structural rewiring usually triggered by the drug in adult brains. Future research should test different dosages and examine alternative behavioral markers in developing animals.
Extensively monitoring how developmental age and hormonal cycles change receptor function allows laboratory work to map onto real world conditions. Understanding these specific biological parameters will help medical professionals optimize future psychiatric drug doses for a wider diversity of patients.
The study, “Age- and estrous-dependent effects of psilocybin in rats,” was authored by A.L. Zylko, R.J. Rakoczy, B.F. Roberts, M. Wilson, A. Powell, A. Page, M. Heitkamp, D. Feist, J.A. Jones, and M.S. McMurray.
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Psilocybin induces different behavioral responses in rats depending on their age and female reproductive cycles. Treating young rats with the drug, however, does not alter their behavior later in life. These outcomes indicate that psychedelic therapies may need to be customized for different patient demographics to ensure they work safely and effectively. The findings were published in the journal Neuropharmacology.
Rates of mood disorders and anxiety disorders continue to rise globally. Standard medications, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, act as the most common first line of defense for these health issues. These daily medications can take weeks or even months to provide noticeable relief. They also fail to alleviate symptoms for a large portion of the people taking them, pushing medical researchers to investigate psychedelic drugs as alternative treatments.
Clinical trials suggest psilocybin might act faster, require fewer doses, and offer longer lasting relief than standard antidepressants. When a person or animal consumes psilocybin, the body rapidly breaks it down into a chemical called psilocin, which enters the brain and attaches to specific docking stations on brain cells called serotonin receptors. Activating these receptors alters consciousness, mood, and perception while promoting neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s physical ability to form new cell connections and rewire old pathways.
Historically, most studies exploring these potential therapies rely almost entirely on adult male test subjects. This blind spot exists even though major depressive episodes are notably more common in women than in men. These psychiatric conditions also frequently emerge during human adolescence, and the teenage years represent a unique period of massive brain development.
During this developmental window, brains undergo a restructuring process where massive numbers of connections between neurons are formed and then intentionally pruned away. Serotonin systems play a massive role in guiding this physical restructuring. Introducing a potent drug that alters serotonin signaling could theoretically disrupt a typical growth trajectory. A.L. Zylko, Matthew S. McMurray, and their colleagues at Miami University designed a study to evaluate these overlooked areas in psychedelic medicine.
The research team observed how rats of different ages reacted to a single dose of psilocybin. The specific psilocybin used in the study was synthesized in a laboratory using bioengineered bacteria. They gave adolescent rats either a harmless water solution or the manufactured drug. They also administered the exact same substances to fully grown adult rats to provide a baseline for comparison.
After administering the substances through a feeding tube, the researchers placed each animal in a clear observation cage and recorded their behavior on video for half an hour. They watched for a rapid, side-to-side shaking movement of the head and body. This behavior, resembling a wet dog shaking off water, is a standard marker used to measure hallucination-like states in rodents. Activating the specific serotonin receptors targeted by psilocybin reliably triggers this distinct shaking motion.
The adult rats displayed a robust increase in this behavior within five minutes of receiving the substance. The adolescent rats, on the other hand, barely reacted at all. They did not show the typical rapid head movements associated with the drug. This outcome was consistent across testing days for both early adolescent and late adolescent test groups.
The researchers then let all the young rats grow to adulthood. They wanted to see if brief exposure to the drug during a sensitive developmental period would change their adult brains in noticeable ways. Once the rats reached maturity, the team ran the subjects through a series of behavioral testing paradigms.
One test placed the animals on an elevated zero maze to measure their anxiety. This apparatus is a raised, circular track featuring open sections without walls alongside enclosed, sheltered sections. Rats instinctively fear exposed heights, meaning animals spending more time exploring the open sections show lower anxiety levels. The team found that rats previously given the psychedelic explored the track exactly like the rats given only water.
Another assessment tested how well the rats could adapt to changing rules. This task measures behavioral flexibility, a cognitive trait often impaired in individuals suffering from severe depression. The researchers restricted the animals’ food intake, then taught the hungry rats to press specific levers inside a testing chamber to receive a sugar pellet. One lever provided a sweet reward most of the time, while the other rarely dispensed an item.
Once the rats learned to favor the reliable lever, the experimenters switched the rules, making the rare lever the highly rewarding one. The animals had to figure out that the environment had changed and alter their strategy. The rats exposed to psilocybin during their youth learned the new rules just as quickly as their unexposed peers.
Finally, the researchers gave these grown rats a fresh dose of the psychedelic. They recorded their behavior to see if early adolescent exposure permanently altered their brain’s sensitivity to the chemical. Again, the early exposure made no difference in their physical response. The matured rats reacted just like adults experiencing the drug for the exact first time.
While analyzing the adult test groups, the research team noticed a clear division between the sexes. Adult female rats exhibited the shaking motion much more frequently than the adult male rats. To understand this difference, the researchers launched a secondary study focusing entirely on the female reproductive cycle.
In female rodents, this process is called the estrous cycle, and it heavily influences the structure and chemistry of the mammalian brain. The cycle involves rising and falling levels of hormones like estrogen. The researchers tracked the cycles of adult female rats for two weeks to establish their individual biological rhythms. Then, they administered psilocybin during two distinct phases of the cycle.
They tested the rats during a phase characterized by relatively low estrogen levels, called diestrus. They also tested them during a phase with peak estrogen levels, known as proestrus. The results showed a clear fluctuation in drug sensitivity that tracked directly with the hormonal shifts. Females in the low-estrogen phase displayed a higher number of shaking responses compared to when they were in the high-estrogen phase.
The researchers note that hormonal changes may alter how serotonin receptors function inside the brain. Estrogen levels might change the exact location of these receptors, pulling them off the cell surface and hiding them inside the cells where the psychedelic chemicals cannot easily reach them. Estrogen might also alter the cellular chain reactions that usually happen immediately after the drug binds to the receptor.
The researchers outline several limitations to their experimental findings. The lack of shaking behavior in the younger rats does not guarantee that the youngsters experienced no effects from the drug at all. Adolescent rats might process the drug physically faster or express the neurological effects through entirely different physical movements than adults. Preliminary tests hinted that the overall baseline number of serotonin receptors does not change drastically between age groups, but the measurement methods used had technical limitations.
Discovering that early exposure does not cause long lasting behavioral harm is a positive result, but the researchers note that developing brains naturally possess high levels of plasticity. These naturally high levels might hide the subtle structural rewiring usually triggered by the drug in adult brains. Future research should test different dosages and examine alternative behavioral markers in developing animals.
Extensively monitoring how developmental age and hormonal cycles change receptor function allows laboratory work to map onto real world conditions. Understanding these specific biological parameters will help medical professionals optimize future psychiatric drug doses for a wider diversity of patients.
The study, “Age- and estrous-dependent effects of psilocybin in rats,” was authored by A.L. Zylko, R.J. Rakoczy, B.F. Roberts, M. Wilson, A. Powell, A. Page, M. Heitkamp, D. Feist, J.A. Jones, and M.S. McMurray.
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Estrogen levels may dictate how the brain reacts to psychedelics, new animal study indicates
URL: https://www.psypost.org/age-and-hormones-alter-how-rats-respond-to-psilocybin-2026-03-26/
Psilocybin induces different behavioral responses in rats depending on their age and female reproductive cycles. Treating young rats with the drug, however, does not alter their behavior later in life. These outcomes indicate that psychedelic therapies may need to be customized for different patient demographics to ensure they work safely and effectively. The findings were published in the journal Neuropharmacology.
Rates of mood disorders and anxiety disorders continue to rise globally. Standard medications, like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, act as the most common first line of defense for these health issues. These daily medications can take weeks or even months to provide noticeable relief. They also fail to alleviate symptoms for a large portion of the people taking them, pushing medical researchers to investigate psychedelic drugs as alternative treatments.
Clinical trials suggest psilocybin might act faster, require fewer doses, and offer longer lasting relief than standard antidepressants. When a person or animal consumes psilocybin, the body rapidly breaks it down into a chemical called psilocin, which enters the brain and attaches to specific docking stations on brain cells called serotonin receptors. Activating these receptors alters consciousness, mood, and perception while promoting neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s physical ability to form new cell connections and rewire old pathways.
Historically, most studies exploring these potential therapies rely almost entirely on adult male test subjects. This blind spot exists even though major depressive episodes are notably more common in women than in men. These psychiatric conditions also frequently emerge during human adolescence, and the teenage years represent a unique period of massive brain development.
During this developmental window, brains undergo a restructuring process where massive numbers of connections between neurons are formed and then intentionally pruned away. Serotonin systems play a massive role in guiding this physical restructuring. Introducing a potent drug that alters serotonin signaling could theoretically disrupt a typical growth trajectory. A.L. Zylko, Matthew S. McMurray, and their colleagues at Miami University designed a study to evaluate these overlooked areas in psychedelic medicine.
The research team observed how rats of different ages reacted to a single dose of psilocybin. The specific psilocybin used in the study was synthesized in a laboratory using bioengineered bacteria. They gave adolescent rats either a harmless water solution or the manufactured drug. They also administered the exact same substances to fully grown adult rats to provide a baseline for comparison.
After administering the substances through a feeding tube, the researchers placed each animal in a clear observation cage and recorded their behavior on video for half an hour. They watched for a rapid, side-to-side shaking movement of the head and body. This behavior, resembling a wet dog shaking off water, is a standard marker used to measure hallucination-like states in rodents. Activating the specific serotonin receptors targeted by psilocybin reliably triggers this distinct shaking motion.
The adult rats displayed a robust increase in this behavior within five minutes of receiving the substance. The adolescent rats, on the other hand, barely reacted at all. They did not show the typical rapid head movements associated with the drug. This outcome was consistent across testing days for both early adolescent and late adolescent test groups.
The researchers then let all the young rats grow to adulthood. They wanted to see if brief exposure to the drug during a sensitive developmental period would change their adult brains in noticeable ways. Once the rats reached maturity, the team ran the subjects through a series of behavioral testing paradigms.
One test placed the animals on an elevated zero maze to measure their anxiety. This apparatus is a raised, circular track featuring open sections without walls alongside enclosed, sheltered sections. Rats instinctively fear exposed heights, meaning animals spending more time exploring the open sections show lower anxiety levels. The team found that rats previously given the psychedelic explored the track exactly like the rats given only water.
Another assessment tested how well the rats could adapt to changing rules. This task measures behavioral flexibility, a cognitive trait often impaired in individuals suffering from severe depression. The researchers restricted the animals’ food intake, then taught the hungry rats to press specific levers inside a testing chamber to receive a sugar pellet. One lever provided a sweet reward most of the time, while the other rarely dispensed an item.
Once the rats learned to favor the reliable lever, the experimenters switched the rules, making the rare lever the highly rewarding one. The animals had to figure out that the environment had changed and alter their strategy. The rats exposed to psilocybin during their youth learned the new rules just as quickly as their unexposed peers.
Finally, the researchers gave these grown rats a fresh dose of the psychedelic. They recorded their behavior to see if early adolescent exposure permanently altered their brain’s sensitivity to the chemical. Again, the early exposure made no difference in their physical response. The matured rats reacted just like adults experiencing the drug for the exact first time.
While analyzing the adult test groups, the research team noticed a clear division between the sexes. Adult female rats exhibited the shaking motion much more frequently than the adult male rats. To understand this difference, the researchers launched a secondary study focusing entirely on the female reproductive cycle.
In female rodents, this process is called the estrous cycle, and it heavily influences the structure and chemistry of the mammalian brain. The cycle involves rising and falling levels of hormones like estrogen. The researchers tracked the cycles of adult female rats for two weeks to establish their individual biological rhythms. Then, they administered psilocybin during two distinct phases of the cycle.
They tested the rats during a phase characterized by relatively low estrogen levels, called diestrus. They also tested them during a phase with peak estrogen levels, known as proestrus. The results showed a clear fluctuation in drug sensitivity that tracked directly with the hormonal shifts. Females in the low-estrogen phase displayed a higher number of shaking responses compared to when they were in the high-estrogen phase.
The researchers note that hormonal changes may alter how serotonin receptors function inside the brain. Estrogen levels might change the exact location of these receptors, pulling them off the cell surface and hiding them inside the cells where the psychedelic chemicals cannot easily reach them. Estrogen might also alter the cellular chain reactions that usually happen immediately after the drug binds to the receptor.
The researchers outline several limitations to their experimental findings. The lack of shaking behavior in the younger rats does not guarantee that the youngsters experienced no effects from the drug at all. Adolescent rats might process the drug physically faster or express the neurological effects through entirely different physical movements than adults. Preliminary tests hinted that the overall baseline number of serotonin receptors does not change drastically between age groups, but the measurement methods used had technical limitations.
Discovering that early exposure does not cause long lasting behavioral harm is a positive result, but the researchers note that developing brains naturally possess high levels of plasticity. These naturally high levels might hide the subtle structural rewiring usually triggered by the drug in adult brains. Future research should test different dosages and examine alternative behavioral markers in developing animals.
Extensively monitoring how developmental age and hormonal cycles change receptor function allows laboratory work to map onto real world conditions. Understanding these specific biological parameters will help medical professionals optimize future psychiatric drug doses for a wider diversity of patients.
The study, “Age- and estrous-dependent effects of psilocybin in rats,” was authored by A.L. Zylko, R.J. Rakoczy, B.F. Roberts, M. Wilson, A. Powell, A. Page, M. Heitkamp, D. Feist, J.A. Jones, and M.S. McMurray.
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