Lsd suggests how to fight schizophrenia

Think of LSD.
What kind of images has turn up to your eyes? Crazy colors? Strange animals? Psychedelic structures? Whirling faces? Your mother’s monologue about the risk you run if you start smoking marijuana?
They may be.
But, have you ever thought of Lysergic acid diethylamide as a mirror of the symptoms and chemical activity found in the brains of schizophrenics??!! That’s the neurological research’s last news.
Studying LSD effects on the brain as well as key symptoms, a team of researchers led by Stuart Sealfon at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, could identify new kinds of drugs to treat schizophrenia.
There is no known cure for this chronic disorder, which affects approximately one in 200 people, emerging in men in their late teens and early 20s, and a decade later in women, according to the World Health Organization.

An older class of so-called atypical anti-psychotic drug acts exclusively on serotonin levels, but Mr Sealfon’s findings suggest that - like LSD - the abnormal brain chemistry in schizophrenics may require medicines that regulate serotonin-glutamate complex at once.
One day schizofrenics could thank LSD addicts.

Did you know that most of the ancient words’ roots had ambivalent meanings?
Good and evil were not so far at the mythological origin of things. The greek word “pharmacon” as well as the word “drug” means a substance that can kill you, but also cure you.
Next time say to your mother: “every cloud has a silver lining mummy, even LSD has one!”.

Filed Under Research, World Health