Siu Wa Tang

Opportunities in Novel Psychotropic Drug Design from Natural Compounds

The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology July 26, 2019 Siu Wa Tang, Wayne H. Tang 19 citations

Multiple initiatives at the national and international level support natural drug discovery. Psychiatrists and patients are not well informed about natural psychotropics in general. Existing antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs were developed from atropine, a natural product. Subsequent drug developments were largely based on extension and modification of earlier molecular scaffolds. This...