Can Low LSD Doses Address Alzheimer’s Disease?

Eleusis Is Investigating Anti-Inflammatory Properties Of Psychedelics

The CEO of Eleusis tells Scrip how the privately held biotech plans to progress low-dose lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to both prevent and treat Alzheimer’s

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Eleusis Is testing low-dose lysergic acid diethylamide for AD • Source: Shutterstock

The premise that psychoactive drugs have transformative potential to treat neurodegenerative disease has been advanced by a Phase I safety study conducted in the UK using low doses of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, in healthy older volunteers.

Results from the early-stage study, published in the journal Psychopharmacology, suggested the safety and tolerability of orally administered 5μg, 10μg,...

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