Deborah Mash is neuroscientist, inventor and one of the world's foremost experts on the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine. She is the CEO and Founder of DemeRx Inc., a clinical stage drug development company advancing ibogaine and its active metabolite noribogaine for the treatment of opioid use disorder. DemeRx has partnered with ATAI Life Sciences -- a global biotech platform with a special focus on psychedelic medicine -- to develop ibogaine for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Building on the extensive human data available around ibogaine, DemeRx and ATAI will submit Clinical Trial Applications for a Phase II study in opioid-dependent patients to address the current opioid crisis in America.

Deborah Mash is Professor of Neurology (Emeritus) and Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has held uninterrupted NIH funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for over thirty years. She works with a team of scientists, clinicians and other researchers and entrepreneurs to bring discoveries to patients.

Topics covered in this episode:

Discoveries of the Brain
Hallucinogenic Research
Ibogaine
Metabolites
Withdrawls
Pharmacology
Rewiring the Brain
Alkaloids in Plants
Psychiatry & Psychedelics

Referenced in the episode:

The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 202 | Drunk: Why We Drink and How It Civilized Us | Edward Slingerland

To learn more about Deborah Mash and her work, head over to https://www.demerx.com/

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