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Help luck along to find psychiatric medicines

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To increase the chances of stumbling on existing drugs that can double as brain treatments, a systematic search is needed, says David Nutt.

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Nutt, D. Help luck along to find psychiatric medicines. Nature 515, 165 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/515165a

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