Psychoplastogen

Quick meaning: Psychoplastogen is a noun meaning (medicine, psychiatry, organic chemistry) Any of a group of small molecule drugs (notably including some psychedelics) that produce rapid and long-lasting effects on neuronal structure and function and whose use is intended to produce therapeutic benefit after a single dose.

Meaning

(medicine, psychiatry, organic chemistry) Any of a group of small molecule drugs (notably including some psychedelics) that produce rapid and long-lasting effects on neuronal structure and function and whose use is intended to produce therapeutic benefit after a single dose.

Example Sentences

Psychedelics trigger neuroplasticity immediately, which is why they've been dubbed psychoplastogens. It's not yet known, however, how long this plasticity lasts.

The fact that LSD, psilocybin, and so forth act as psychoplastogens—agents that increase the plasticity of the mind—is part of what explains their therapeutic effects (Ly et al. 2018, Olson 2018).

Although the molecular targets of classic and dissociative psychedelics differ (5HT and NMDA receptors, respectively), their plasticity promoting properties are similar and are known to activate TrkB, mTOR, and 5HT_(2A) signaling pathways, suggesting that these key signaling hubs may serve as potential targets for the development of "psychoplastogens," fast-acting antidepressants, and anxiolytics (Ly et al., 2018).

Word Forms

• psychoplastogens

Synonyms for psychoplastogen

Depending on context, synonyms include neuroplastogen.

Related Words

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