{"id":179928,"date":"2024-01-05T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/psychedelic-drug-ibogaine-shows-preliminary-promise-for-traumatic-brain-injury-study"},"modified":"2024-01-05T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T02:25:30","slug":"psychedelic-drug-ibogaine-shows-preliminary-promise-for-traumatic-brain-injury-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/psychedelic-drug-ibogaine-shows-preliminary-promise-for-traumatic-brain-injury-study","title":{"rendered":"Psychedelic drug ibogaine shows preliminary promise for traumatic brain injury: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/psychedelic-drug-ibogaine-shows-preliminary-promise-for-traumatic-brain-injury-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a small group of veterans diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, treatment with a psychedelic drug, ibogaine was associated with improvements in daily function and mental health symptoms, a new study out of Stanford found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could be one of the first treatments for traumatic brain injury,\u201d said Dr. Nolan Williams, associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford, and principal study investigator. \u201cI think it\u2019s a moment of hope for veterans and folks with permanent neurological injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Drug Administration classifies ibogaine as a <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/cdrh\/cfdocs\/cfcfr\/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=1308&showFR=1\" target=\"_blank\">Schedule I<\/a> drug, citing \u201chigh abuse potential\u201d and \u201cno accepted medical use.\u201d To receive the one-time dose, 30 Special Ops veterans traveled to a treatment site in Mexico where ibogaine use is unregulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a small group of veterans diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, treatment with a psychedelic drug, ibogaine was associated with improvements in daily function and mental health symptoms, a new study out of Stanford found. \u201cThis could be one of the first treatments for traumatic brain injury,\u201d said Dr. Nolan Williams, associate professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}