Researchers have achieved total chemical synthesis of the psychoactive compound ibogaine and its analogs from pyridine. The discovery will make it easier to explore the therapeutic possibilities of ...

Ibogaine—a psychoactive plant derivative—has attracted attention for its anti-addictive and anti-depressant properties. But ...

Ibogaine — a psychoactive plant derivative — has attracted attention for its anti-addictive and anti-depressant properties.

Synopsis: In a recently issued final written decision, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) found all challenged ...

Esketamine, the chemical name for Spravato, is a chemical mirror image of anesthetic ketamine, which is also abused as a recreational party drug and goes by the street nickname “Special K”.

However, Spravato contains a different form of ketamine than the version that is used intravenously—a chemical sibling called esketamine. In the years since its approval, Spravato and ketamine ...

Spravato, which is derived from ketamine, is not a new drug—it first came on the market in 2019. The spray was previously approved as a companion treatment to an oral antidepressant, as well as ...

SINGAPORE – Ketamine, the controlled drug best known as a horse tranquilliser or party supplement, has in the last four years become a boon to scores of severely depressed patients in Singapore.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has agreed a new three-year Open Access publishing agreement with Couperin, a consortium of French Higher Education and Research establishments.

Recreational ketamine use has local researchers sounding the alarm. Dr. Philip Botkiss is the medical director of the West Coast Ketamine Center. He says he's seen a good response from patients ...

Musk talked about his ketamine use in an interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon in March 2024. “There are times when I have sort of a … negative chemical state in my brain, like depression ...