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Institute of Molecular Psychiatry

Institute of Molecular Psychiatry (1)

Research helps solve one of the greatest challenges of biomedical research to understand how the brain works and how psychiatric illnesses develops

Ponce de León never found the Fountain of Youth. Andras Bilkei-Gorzo from the University of Bonn in Germany thinks Ponce should have looked at low dose THC. Andras and his team have been giving mice low dose THC and finding some interesting results. Listen to how to get an older mouse to swim to an invisible platform faster, how THC can flip a metabolic switch called mTOR on and off at the same time, and why low dose THC might be better for older people than younger ones.