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LSD may offer viable treatment for certain mental disorders
McGill study a step in understanding the mechanism of psychedelics’ impact on brain and potential for therapeutic use
Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction. The findings, which could help unlock potential therapeutic applications in treating certain psychiatric diseases, including anxiety and alcohol use disorders, are published in the journal PNAS.
Psychedelic drugs, including LSD, were popular in the 1970s and have been gaining popularity over the past decade, with reports of young professionals claiming to regularly take small non-hallucinogenic micro-doses of LSD to boost their productivity and creativity and to increase their empathy. The mechanism of action of LSD on the brain, however, has remained a mystery.
Author of the article: Sophie Ash • Special to National Post
Publishing date: Jan 15, 2021 • January 15, 2021 • 4 minute read Dr. Robert Koenekoop has spent the past 25 years studying all of the genes responsible for IRDs, pictured here at his Montreal clinic, pre-COVID. SUPPLIED
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We often think of genetics in terms of the characteristics we inherit from our birth parents – brown hair, freckles, artistic talent, and so on. But there’s a whole other set of genetic inheritance that can be much more serious.
Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are diseases caused by mutations in over 270 different genes that can be passed down through generations. Individuals with an IRD experience progressive loss of vision and may become blind. The vision loss that occurs in IRDs is a result of genetic mutations that interfere with the way the eye would normally function.
MONTREAL Seven residents of a Montreal long-term care centre who received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have contracted COVID-19. Management at the Maimonides Geriatric Centre informed patients in a notice sent Tuesday, noting that residents were infected within the first 28 days of receiving their first of two vaccine doses. Quebec has […]