LSD may offer viable treatment for certain mental disorders

Published: 26 January 2021

Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social...

New use for an old drug: How does ketamine combat depression?

Published: 16 December 2020

A group of proteins called 4E-BPs, involved in memory formation, is the key to unlocking the antidepressant effect of ketamine in the brain, according to researchers from three Canadian...

New hope in the fight against pain

Published: 17 February 2015

An international study led by scientists at McGill University reports, for the first time, that drugs that selectively target the melatonin MT2 receptor represent a novel class of analgesic drugs...

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