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No trip to the shrink: LSD adjusted to treat psychiatric diseases
A team of scientists in California has tweaked the hallucinogenic drug LSD to make it usable to treat schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases.According to the ...
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By moving two atoms, researchers turn LSD into a supercharged medication 💊
Scientists at the University of California, Davis have successfully altered the LSD molecule slightly, creating a new ...
Scientists Flip Two Atoms in LSD – And Unlock a Game-Changing Mental Health Treatment
A team at UC Davis has created a new drug called JRT that mimics LSD’s brain-healing effects without the hallucinogenic side ...
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LSD atom swap tunes out hallucinations
LSD has always been a source of fascination for Olson because of its outstanding ability to form and strengthen neural ...
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Scientists Redesign LSD To Create a Non-Hallucinogenic Antidepressant
The team at UC Davis set out to answer a difficult question: Can you keep the benefits of LSD while removing the hallucinogenic effects that make it unsafe for many patients? The researchers focused ...
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A New Form of LSD to Treat Schizophrenia
Source: By IndependentOo, Dominik from Germany, Maximilian IV, Laitche, NASA; composite artwork by Belbury - CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938 ...
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LSD analog shows potential for treating schizophrenia
To design the drug, dubbed JRT, researchers flipped the position of just two atoms in LSD's molecular structure. The chemical flip reduced JRT's hallucinogenic potential while maintaining its ...