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How We Can Do Better Drug Discovery | Jack Scannell

The DeSci Podcast

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The Importance of Testing on Humans in the CNS Psychopharmacology Space

The best anti-depressants are still yet to come in the psychedelics class or what are sometimes called psychoplastigens which are enhancers of neuroplasticity. It remains to be seen whether you can really divorce the trip from the therapeutic effects because a lot of it is people going back into their own psyche. Most of the phenethylamines and tryptamine class psychodelics were derived from one guy Alexander Schulgen this incredible chemist who synthesized hundreds of them and tried them on himself and his friends.

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