Stress & Immunity, Crop Resilience, Psychedelic Scale

Curiosity Daily

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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