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Synesthesia, hallucinations, euphoria. The documented effects of classic psychedelic substances such as psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) are vast. With their usage common and their effects profound, a team of speech and psychology researchers explored the impact of psychedelics on people who stutter, finding evidence that users see some benefits.

More than 70 million people worldwide are thought to have some kind of stuttering speech impediment - including the current President of the United States - and experts are still continuing to learn more about the condition and what causes it....

More than 70 million people worldwide are thought to have some kind of stuttering speech impediment – including the current President of the United States – and experts are still continuing to learn more about the condition and what causes it.

“The idea of this study was to create a condition in which the stutterers who came into our lab actually thought that they were alone and not being observed,” Eric S. Jackson said.

A new study finds evidence for the "talk-alone-effect" in adults who stutter. When they're alone and think no one's listening, they don't stutter at all.