Bright Minds and Its Approach to Treat Mental Illness

Bright Minds Biosciences, a biotechnology company, is developing novel transformative treatments for mental illness, pain, epilepsy and neuropsychiatry. The company has several drugs that target the treatment of the mentioned illness. Most of the projects launched by the company is in the pipeline, and a few of them reached in third pre-clinical stage.

The company is majorly targeting the treatment for pain, epilepsy and neuropsychiatry. The new drugs developed by the biotechnology company have promising trials so far. Let us understand the approach and the science that Bright Minds is using in the development of new drugs;

Bright Minds Biosciences Approach

The company claims to use modern technology and tools to treat mental illness. The brain has very complex functionality. Billions of neurons and hormones like Serotonin play an important role in keeping a brain healthy. Serotonin is mainly responsible for the sleep cycle and mood swings. The imbalance of the hormone can lead to severe mental health problems. There are Selective Serotonin Reuptakes Inhibitors (SSRIs) available to help patients with mental illness. The issue with most medicines to cure mental illness is their side effects. Bright Minds is developing next-generation Serotonin drugs that will work on the issue and will not affect healthy brain receptors. Hence the side effects will be none.

Science Behind Bright Minds Approach

The biotechnology company is looking forward to using Psilocybin. The compound is found in the magic mushrooms. It has shown some promising results in the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder, also knows as MDD. In many research is has come out Psilocybin may have the ability to reset the brain circuits' functional connectivity. But the full potential components of the compound cannot be achieved due to other receptors.

Bright Minds is using its unique chemistry capabilities to work on the unique compounds of Serotonin. The company aims to develop a drug that helps to cure depression amd MDD without any side effects. The company is also developing a compound that treats binge eating disorders, smoking addiction and cocaine abuse. The unique compounds of Bright Minds Biosciences target the 5-HT2C receptors to treat the mentioned issues. The drugs with the compound can heal the patient without any side effects like weight gain or any other.

A few major depressive disorder (MDD) patients are resistant to Selective Serotonin Reuptakes Inhibitors (SSRIs). These patients have to depend on the combination of drugs or electroshock therapy. BM Biosciences is developing the drugs for these patients. The drugs will be effective on MDD and will not have any further side effects on patients. Patients with major depressive disorder can consume the drugs without the fear of any weight gain or sleep disorder.

The 5-HT2 receptors can also treat Parkinson's disease without any side effects on patients' blood pressure. Like MDD, Parkison is another disease where treatment without any side effects is a challenge. The portfolio of Bright Minds Biosciences looks impressive, and its drugs will offer relief to patients with mental illness without any sleep disorder and weight gain.