http://mindhacks.com/2008/02/25/psychosis-and-the-coming-glutamate-revolution/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 17 May 2013 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/02/25/psychosis-and-the-coming-glutamate-revolution/#comment-6835 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:50:24 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/psychosis-and-the-coming-glutamate-revolution/#comment-6835 Yes, Anibal, I stumbled upon the same news here:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jcUVAXeWn9Qtz5DAzKDQEzOdhigQ
As for the glutamate drug, SRF had a great review of the initial stages of its clinical testing:
http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/new/detail.asp?id=1342
If you want a quick overview of the Glutamate Hypothesis of Schizophrenia, it’s also there, By Bita Moghaddam:
http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/for/curr/Moghaddam/default.asp

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/02/25/psychosis-and-the-coming-glutamate-revolution/#comment-6834 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:10:22 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/psychosis-and-the-coming-glutamate-revolution/#comment-6834 Javier Meana and Luis F. Callado researchers from the University of the Basque Country have been recently published an article in “Nature” describing how neurotrasmitters like serotonin and glutamate form a complex molecule that trigger psychotic symptoms when the subject ingest drugs such as LSD, in similar way to the symptoms of schizophrenia, findings that open up the path to discover new durgs to treat this mental illness (schizophrenia)

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