Psychedelics, but not ketamine, produce persistent antidepressant-like effects in a rodent experimental system for the study of depression

M Hibicke, AN Landry, HM Kramer… - ACS chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Psilocybin shows efficacy to alleviate depression in human clinical trials for six or more
months after only one or two treatments. Another hallucinogenic drug, esketamine, has …

Harnessing psilocybin: antidepressant-like behavioral and synaptic actions of psilocybin are independent of 5-HT2R activation in mice

N Hesselgrave, TA Troppoli, AB Wulff… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Depression is a widespread and devastating mental illness and the search for rapid-acting
antidepressants remains critical. There is now exciting evidence that the psychedelic …

The promises and perils of psychedelic pharmacology for psychiatry

TD McClure-Begley, BL Roth - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Psychedelic drugs including psilocybin, N, N ʹ-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and lysergic acid
diethylamide (LSD) are undergoing a renaissance as potentially useful drugs for various …

[HTML][HTML] Preclinical perspectives on the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic actions of psilocybin in psychiatric disorders

AB Wulff, CD Nichols, SM Thompson - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Psychedelic compounds have shown extraordinary potential in treating a wide range of
neuropsychiatric disorders. Psilocybin, for example, has now been shown in several clinical …

Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for depression: Emerging research on a psychedelic compound with a rich history

C Pearson, J Siegel, JA Gold - Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a serious need for novel therapies that treat individuals with depression, including
major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). An emerging …

Ketamine and serotonergic psychedelics: an update on the mechanisms and biosignatures underlying rapid-acting antidepressant treatment

JN Johnston, B Kadriu, J Allen, JR Gilbert, ID Henter… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
The discovery of ketamine as a rapid-acting antidepressant spurred significant research to
understand its underlying mechanisms of action and to identify other novel compounds that …

Molecular mechanisms of psilocybin and implications for the treatment of depression

S Ling, F Ceban, LMW Lui, Y Lee, KM Teopiz… - CNS drugs, 2022 - Springer
Therapeutic deficiencies with monoaminergic antidepressants invites the need to identify
and develop novel rapid-acting antidepressants. Hitherto, ketamine and esketamine are …

Sub-acute effects of psilocybin on EEG correlates of neural plasticity in major depression: Relationship to symptoms

PD Skosnik, J Sloshower… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Evidence suggests that serotonergic psychedelics (eg psilocybin), have rapid-
acting and long-lasting antidepressant effects after a single dose. However, the mechanism …

Role of serotonin and noradrenaline in the rapid antidepressant action of ketamine

X López-Gil, L Jiménez-Sánchez… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Depression is a chronic and debilitating illness that interferes severely with many human
behaviors, and is the leading cause of disability in the world. There is data suggesting that …

The therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs: past, present, and future

RL Carhart-Harris, GM Goodwin - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
Plant-based psychedelics, such as psilocybin, have an ancient history of medicinal use.
After the first English language report on LSD in 1950, psychedelics enjoyed a short-lived …