Magic Mushrooms Show Promise in Treating Color Blindness, Study Finds

A man with mild red-green color blindness experienced modest, long-lasting improvements in his color vision after taking a single dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, according to a case report by doctors and researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Alabama. The report suggests that psychedelics could improve color vision deficiency, but further research is needed to validate the findings and determine how it works. The authors speculate that these drugs could be inducing new connections in the parts of the brain that are involved in higher-level visual processing, particularly around our perception of colors.