Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Efficacy of Phytocannabinoids in Epilepsy Treatment: Novel Approaches and Recent Advances

Aaron Mark Farrelly, Styliani Vlachou, Konstantinos Grintzalis

This 2021 review looks at plant-derived cannabinoids as possible treatments for epilepsy. It focuses on four compounds — CBD, CBDV, Δ9-THCV and CBG — and reviews what is known about how they might work in the brain and what animal and human studies have shown. The authors say there is…

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