Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dr. Anthony Back (pronounced bock), a professor of medicine and practitioner with UW Medicine in Seattle, discusses the clinical trial of psilocybin psychotherapy whose findings were published in JAMA Network Open on Dec. 5, 2024. The participants in the trial were front-line clinicians who became burned out and depressed while treating patients early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Related news release at UW Medicine: https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/psilocybin-therapy-helps-clinicians-process-covid-despair