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Basic Principles of Psychedelics for Early Drug Research

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Abstract

Essence

The paper frames psychedelic drug discovery around assays for receptor agonism, behavior, and cellular plasticity.

Evidence

This preclinical review evaluates methods for psychedelics and non-hallucinogenic serotonin 2A receptor agonists, including biased signaling, automated behavioral phenotyping, neural remodeling, and activity-dependent gene expression.

Caveat

It offers a roadmap rather than therapeutic efficacy evidence, and human translation of receptor-selective psychedelic analogs remains unresolved.

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Funding

Competing interests

Declaration of interests A.C.K. has been a scientific advisor or consultant for Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Empyrean Neuroscience, Freedom Biosciences, and Xylo Bio. A.C.K. has received research support from Intra-Cellular Therapies. J.R.M. is a co-founder of Promentis Pharmaceuticals. The other authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.
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