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 E-Mail IMAGE: This is a representative image of cultured dissociated hippocampal neurons transiently expressing psychLight1 and psychLight2. Scale bar, 20 mm. view more  Credit: Calvin Ly Psychedelic drugs have shown promise for treating neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. However, due to their hallucinatory side effects, some researchers are trying to identify drugs that could offer the benefits of psychedelics without causing hallucinations. In the journal Cell on April 28, researchers report they have identified one such drug through...

by Andy Fell April 28, 2021 A genetically encoded fluorescent sensor to detect hallucinogenic compounds has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis. Named psychLight, the sensor could be used in discovering new treatments for mental illness, in neuroscience research and to detect drugs of abuse. The work is published April 28 in the journal Cell. Compounds related to psychedelic drugs such as LSD and dimethyltryptamine (DMT) show great promise for treating disorders such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder. These drugs are ca...

Credit: Microwave Nano-Electronics Lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Materials having excess electrons are typically conductors. However, moiré patterns -- interference patterns that typically arise when one object with a repetitive pattern is placed over another with a similar pattern -- can suppress electrical conductivity, a study led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has found. In the lab, the researchers overlaid a single monolayer of tungsten disulfide (WS 2) on a single monolayer of tungsten diselenide (WSe 2) and aligned the two layers against each other...