FDA publishes recommendations on psychedelic clinical trial design
New draft guidance published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is intended to aid clinical study design in psychedelic drug development programmes.
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New draft guidance published by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is intended to aid clinical study design in psychedelic drug development programmes.
Psychedelic drugs are gaining popularity in the pharmaceutical R&D sector because of their apparent benefits for people suffering with neuropsychiatric disorders - and those which are resistant to existing therapies in particular. In this article, Imperial College London’s Professor David Nutt discusses the evidence underlying the development of psychedelic therapies…
Here, Dr Matthew McMurray and Dr J Andrew Jones of Miami University explain why psychedelic drugs are attracting R&D as potential treatments for neuropsychiatric and degenerative disorders and how their discovery of an in vivo production technique could enable further advancement.
Three sessions of MDMA-assisted talk therapy resulted in significant symptom reductions for 88 percent of patients with severe, chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The largest placebo-controlled psychedelics study to date concluded that the psychological benefits of microdoses of psychedelics are likely due to the placebo effect.
The Terasaki Institute is partnering with PharmaTher to adapt a microneedle drug delivery patch for the micro-dosing of psychedelics.