A scientific review and meta-analysis published in Psychiatry Research concludes that “well-designed phase III trials are urgently needed” to further examine the promising effects of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in patients with major depression and life-threatening cancer. These pivotal trials would assess the safety and efficacy of this novel approach in comparison to existing standard treatments, potentially establishing psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as an accepted medical alternative. The new research was spurred by a pressing need to find effective treatments for depression, part…