Magic Mushrooms Help Alzheimer's Patient Reclaim Vital Life Skills

After a decade of cognitive and functional decline, an 80-year-old patient with advanced Alzheimer’s disease showed remarkable signs of progress.

All it took was a single dose of an experimental hallucinogen to get her speaking more than she had in years — and that’s just the top of the list of her improvements.

Alzheimer’s, which affects millions of Americans, gradually destroys memory, thinking skills and the capacity to perform basic tasks.