University of California - Davis Sep 30 2025 Magic mushrooms may not be the answer to postpartum depression, new research from the University of California, Davis suggests.  In a first-of-its-kind study appearing in  Nature Communications , an interdisciplinary team from the university's Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics (IPN) dosed mouse mothers with psilocybin and found that the drug amplified anxiety and depressive-like symptoms associated with perinatal mood disorders -