Depression affects more than 280 million people worldwide, and approximately one-third of patients with major depressive disorder fail to respond to conventional antidepressants. The search for more ...

Credit: Getty Images. A Prescription Drug User Fee Act target date of January 26th, 2024 has been assigned to the application. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review ...

Rapid-acting antidepressants, including ketamine, scopolamine and psilocybin, have been found to have immediate and lasting positive effects on mood in patients with major depressive disorder but how ...

Credit: Getty Images. Scopolamine administered via an intranasal gel demonstrated rapid absorption, according to pharmacokinetic studies. Intranasal scopolamine (DPI-386) was found to effectively ...

Recent studies show that the extract of a Chinese herb Polygalae Radix exerts cognition-enhancing actions in rats and humans. The aim of this study was to characterize the pharmacological profiles of ...

What can you tell me about the prescription drug scopolamine? Is it the same thing as the South American “zombie drug”? Wasn’t it used as a truth serum? Why would a doctor ever prescribe it? —Nick ...

SAN ANTONIO — Sept. 6, 2022 — Southwest Research Institute has developed an efficient, fully synthetic method to produce scopolamine, a plant-derived compound used to prevent nausea and vomiting from ...

More than 420 Facebook users have shared an article that claims the military discovered a drug called scopolamine in COVID-19 vaccines formulated for children, according to the social media data ...

Successful production of medicinal compounds from plants depends on weather and growing seasons, potentially making supply chains vulnerable to uncontrollable forces. One way around such challenges is ...