• DOI:10.3389/fnins.2020.00043
Corpus ID: 211012274

Rethinking Therapeutic Strategies for Anorexia Nervosa: Insights From Psychedelic Medicine and Animal Models

@article{Foldi2020RethinkingTS,
  title={Rethinking Therapeutic Strategies for Anorexia Nervosa: Insights From Psychedelic Medicine and Animal Models},
  author={Claire J Foldi and Paul Liknaitzky and Ml Williams and Brian J. Oldfield},
  journal={Frontiers in Neuroscience},
  year={2020},
  volume={14}
}

Claire J Foldi, Paul Liknaitzky, +1 author Brian J. Oldfield

Published in Frontiers in Neuroscience 2020

Psychology, Medicine

Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disease, yet available pharmacological treatments are largely ineffective due, in part, to an inadequate understanding of the neurobiological drivers that underpin the condition. The recent resurgence of research into the clinical applications of psychedelic medicine for a range of mental disorders has highlighted the potential for classical psychedelics, including psilocybin, to alleviate symptoms of AN that relate to… CONTINUE READING

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