{"id":214304,"date":"2025-05-19T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-messed-around-with-lsd-and-invented-a-new-brain-healing-drug"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:08:09","slug":"scientists-messed-around-with-lsd-and-invented-a-new-brain-healing-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-messed-around-with-lsd-and-invented-a-new-brain-healing-drug","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Messed Around With LSD and Invented a New Brain-Healing Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-messed-around-with-lsd-and-invented-a-new-brain-healing-drug.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at UC Davis have fiddled with LSD at the atomic level and may have unlocked a potential game-changing treatment for schizophrenia. The new compound, known as JRT, might be able to repair the brain without making you trip balls.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists, who posted their findings in the scientific journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2416106122\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a><\/em>, were toying with LSD atoms when they decided to, in their own words, do a \u201ctire rotation.\u201d This meant swapping the position of two atoms in LSD\u2019s molecular structure.<\/p>\n<p>That tiny change turned it from a powerful hallucinogen into something that can regrow brain cells in mice and mend neural pathways without launching your consciousness into the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at UC Davis have fiddled with LSD at the atomic level and may have unlocked a potential game-changing treatment for schizophrenia. The new compound, known as JRT, might be able to repair the brain without making you trip balls. The scientists, who posted their findings in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214304","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\/214304","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}