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Psychedelics, entactogens and psychoplastogens for depression and related disorders

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Currently, the most actively investigated rapidly acting antidepressants, anxiolytics and/or anti PTSD agents, include psychedelics e.g. psilocybin, LSD, N,N‐dimethyltryptamine, ayahuasca; non‐hallucinogenic entactogens, e.g. MDMA; psychoplastogens which rapidly promote neuroplasticity, e.g.
Daniel Hoyer
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Exploring the role of inflammation in major depressive disorder: beyond the monoamine hypothesis

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Major depressive disorder affects approximately 8.4% of the United States population. The World Health Organization estimates that 280 million adults worldwide are suffering from depression.
Irene Pastis, Melody G. Santos, Akshita Paruchuri   +2 more
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Psychedelics as pharmacotherapeutics for substance use disorders: A scoping review on clinical trials and perspectives on underlying neurobiology

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Theorized mechanism of dopamine homeostasis restoration in the nucleus accumbens core induced by a psychedelic intervention. Abstract Psychedelics have garnered great attention in recent years as treatments for major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment‐resistant depression because of their ability to alter consciousness and afflicted cognitive ...
Lucas Wittenkeller, Gary Gudelsky, T. John Winhusen, Davide Amato   +3 more
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Is there a role for cannabidiol in obesity, metabolic syndrome and binge eating?

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the most abundant phytocannabinoids isolated from the Cannabis sativa plant. CBD is a lipophilic, non‐intoxicating substance that differently from Δ9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9‐THC) does not present the typical profile of a drug of abuse.
Luca Botticelli, Emanuela Micioni Di Bonaventura, Giacomo Einaudi, Gustavo Provensi, Alessia Costa, Claudio D'Addario, Carlo Cifani, Maria Vittoria Micioni Di Bonaventura   +7 more
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3,4‐Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) does not induce robust psychomotor activation and 50‐kHz ultrasonic vocalisations in tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (Tph2)‐deficient rats lacking serotonin in the central nervous system

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose 3,4‐Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), commonly known as ecstasy, is a psychostimulant with entactogenic properties and known to induce arousal and euphoria. As an amphetamine derivate, MDMA acts on the monoamine systems in the brain and stimulates release of dopamine (DA), noradrenaline (NA) and serotonin (5‐HT), yet their ...
Tianhua Wang, Rainer K. W. Schwarting, Markus Wöhr   +2 more
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Baihe Dihuang Tang as a therapeutic candidate for insomnia: Targeting gut dysbiosis and neuroendocrine dysfunction

iMetaOmics
Baihe Dihuang Tang (BDT), is a traditional Chinese medicinal formulation historically utilized to manage various health conditions, including insomnia.
Liuxi Chu, Qin Lu, Pingping Chen, Zunyong Feng, Ping Wu, Jiamen Shen, Yi Jiang, Yang Yang, Xiran Tan, Xiaomeng Wang, Guoxing Deng, Xi Wang, Xiaokun Li, Zhouguang Wang   +13 more
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Baseline-dependent effects of amphetamine on attention are associated with striatal dopamine metabolism

Scientific Reports, 2017
Psychostimulants, such as amphetamine, are widely used to treat attentional deficits. In humans, response to dopaminergic medications is complex with improvement often dependent on baseline performance.
Karly M. Turner, James Peak, Thomas H. J. Burne   +2 more
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Novel approaches for drug development against chronic primary pain: A systematic review

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Chronic primary pain (CPP) persisting for more than 3 months, associated with significant emotional distress without any known underlying cause, is an unmet medical need. Traditional or adjuvant analgesics do not provide satisfactory pain relief for a great proportion of these patients.
Valéria Tékus, Éva Borbély, Andreas Goebel, Ralf Baron, Zsófia Hajna, Zsuzsanna Helyes   +5 more
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Targeting the noradrenergic‐metabolic axis: A new strategy for sugar‐induced depression subtypes

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose Lifestyle is closely related to major depressive disorder (MDD). Given the growing focus on the impact of diet on mental health, this study examined how dietary habits affect the pathophysiology of MDD. Experimental Approach Health check‐up data were analysed. Mice received sucrose under chronic unpredictable mild stress
Takatoshi Sakata, Kazuo Kunisawa, Masaya Hasegawa, Yumiko Seto, Aoi Ogawa, Hitomi Kurahashi, Yasuko Yamamoto, Masao Takemura, Hidetoshi Matunami, Tomoya Sugai, Noriki Kutsumura, Kuniaki Saito, Toshitaka Nabeshima, Akihiro Mouri   +13 more
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Vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT2 expression emerges in substantia nigra dopamine neurons in mouse models of parkinsonism in the absence of neurodegeneration

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose Subsets of midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons express the vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT2 and can release the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate. VGLUT2+ DA neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) were shown to be more resistant to neurodegeneration in animal models of Parkinson's disease (PD ...
Sivakumar Srinivasan, Christian Pifl, Thomas Steinkellner   +2 more
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