Bright Minds is in the news for a long time for many good reasons. its work in the fields of curing mental illness is being appreciated. The start-up is one of the top 14 psychedelics start-ups that raised high investment in 2020. It shows that investors are finding the Bright Minds' concept interesting.

Stress, depression and other mental illness have become normal now, and people have also started to identify them. Many medicines are already available to cure them, but the medical sector always welcomes new and innovative ideas. Same kind of ideas Bright Minds brought for mental illness. Let's know more about them;

What is Bright Minds?

Bright Minds is a biotechnological start-up that deals to cure mental illness. The company is working towards finding out the more effective medicines for mental illness with no or minimum side effects. The compounds available at present take time to heal the patients, and they have their side effects too. Bright Minds is targeting new generation serotonergic drugs that will behave better reach to the specific patients.

If you are a novice to serotonergic drugs, let us tell you that it plays an important role in the brain's normal functioning. its imbalance can lead to the person to mental illness. The brain-related diseases are getting cured at present as well, but the healing process is slow. The Bright Minds want to enhance the pace of healing and cut down the side effects.

How Bright Minds Words?

As it's a biotechnology company, it takes a living organism's components to cure a specific issue. For Bright Minds, the living creature is 'Magic Mushroom'. The magic mushroom is an ancient remedy to many diseases, but with the dawn of modern medicines, the people forget the legacy of this natural source of 'Psilocybin'. It is a compound that has the capability of resetting brain functions. It plays a key role in Major Depressive Disorder.

Here you must know that 7.1% of adults in the US suffer from MDD. According to WHO, globally approx 264 million people are suffering from MDD. A person with major Depressive Disorder faces issues in doing their work at the office and maintaining personal relationships. This can lead them to suicide many times. So, on-time identification of MDD is a must so that proper medication can be given to the patient.

In many cases, MDD medicines have the side effects like weight gain or lack of sleep. Bright Minds focuses on patients suffering from MDD and resistant to Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). SSRI is the drugs that used to treat depression. The Bright Minds targets the patients who are taking a combination of other drugs or having electroshock therapy. The drugs developed by Bright Minds have no side effect like SSRIs so that the patients can consume them without any fear. The Bright Minds Bioscience compounds target 5-HT2C receptors directly, so they don't cause the very common side effect of weight gaining in the patient.

In the coming time, companies like Bright Minds will change the complete medication of mental illness. The patients and their caregivers are also looking for medicines that can cure without any side effects, and with the efforts of Bright Minds, their wish may is going to fulfill very soon.