{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":480,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T10:19:57.883522+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"New treatment for depression","slug":"new-treatment-for-depression","published_at":"2026-07-22T18:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/new-treatment-for-depression","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG9569037795.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG9569037795.mp3","summary":"Boom in psychedelic therapies? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/20/magic-mushrooms-set-become-uks-ultimate-weapon-against-depression/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/12/psilocybin-depression-brain-break-out-of-a-rut-magic-mushrooms Short-acting drugs, psychedelic experience, two-hour therapy session. Resetting brain networks Helping to end ingrained negative patterns of thought, and making patients far more receptive to therapy. Small Pharma https://smallpharma.com Leading the world’s first regulated clinical trial, DMT (dimethyltryptamine) with psychotherapy for major depressive disorder. Phase one done on healthy volunteers Next few months, reports from 42 patients Dr Carol Routledge, chief medical and scientific officer We think that this treatment will really get to the root cause, rather than just dampening symptoms Almost immediate benefits Based on initial data that we already have, and other companies have, there’s going to be a fairly immediate impact In terms of the psychedelic experience, we’re talking about 20 minutes, and then the integration therapy afterwards, we expect the antidepressant activity to be extremely durable … to last maybe three, four or five months Imaging data Psychedelics work on the brain networks Making neural connections more flexible to brain plasticity You can reset those networks in the brain, and then that leaves the brain much more receptive to therapy, which is why we bring it in straight afterwards Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP) Brings organisations together Speed up the time getting meds to patients Other companies testing MDMA 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Psilocybin, (Clerkenwe…","meta_description":"Boom in psychedelic therapies? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/20/magic-mushrooms-set-become-uks-ultimate-weapon-against-depression/ https://www.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1707,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/new-treatment-for-depression/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/new-treatment-for-depression.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}