Going Down The Psychoactive Rabbit Hole With Pharmacologist Bryan Roth
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Joining us in this episode to discuss all things pharmacology is Bryan Roth. Brian is the Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Protein Therapeutics and Translational Proteomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. With discoveries and inventions in the areas of GPCR structure and molecular pharmacology, Bryan is one of the leading figures in the North Carolina pharmacological community.
Bryan has been interested in psychedelics and psychoactive drugs since he was young, and as he pursued pharmacological research, he is determined to find the "healing magic'' of these substances for the benefit of mental health…
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- How brain receptors interact with different psychoactive drugs.
- What psychoactive drugs actually are, and the different substances that fall under this umbrella.
- The role psychedelics can play in therapeutic purposes.
- The unanswered questions surrounding psychedelic research.
While psychoactive drugs certainly have a stigma surrounding them, there is no question that there can be beneficial medical uses for them. In this episode, we investigate what these applications look like, and how researchers are progressing the way we use psychoactive drugs.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
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| 0:43.0 | I have Brian Roth. |
| 0:45.0 | He's a Michael Hookard Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology Director, |
| 0:48.0 | and NIMH Psychoactive Drug Screening Program Participant. |
| 0:53.0 | This is at the Ashlamin Medical School. |
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| 1:02.0 | without the trip? |
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