Researchers from Anhui University presented the discovery and preclinical evaluation of novel negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) of the metabotropic glutamate mGlu5 receptor.
Enveric Biosciences Inc. has identified three novel compounds from its EVM301 series with the potential to offer a first-in-class approach to address difficult-to-treat mental health disorders by promoting neuroplasticity without inducing hallucinations.
Mira Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reported findings on the cognitive enhancing effects of MIRA-1a, an unscheduled novel synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) analogue, in normal mice.
Bright Minds Biosciences Inc. has created phenethlyamines acting as 5-HT2A receptor agonists and reported to be useful for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders.
Electromedical Products International Inc. (EPI) Alpha-Stim AID technology is finally being made available by the NHS in the U.K. to treat patients with anxiety some two years after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said there was not enough good-quality evidence to support the case for routine adoption.
The U.K. health technology assessment body has given its approval to the use of nine digital health products for treating mental disorders, enabling them to get conditional reimbursement in the National Health Service (NHS), while real world evidence of their cost effectiveness is collected.
Psilera Inc. has announced animal findings for its first cohort of drug candidates designed and synthesized in-house showing that they are non-hallucinogenic. This group includes six patent-pending compounds with novel structural features across four compound families.
Enveric Biosciences Inc. has announced new research detailing the first-ever isolation of a novel indolethylamine N-methyltransferase from the cane toad (Rhinella marina) and the successful development of a bioproduction platform for the isolation and pharmacological screening of novel indolethylamines.