Scopolamine (d-hyoscine) and attopine (dl-hyosycamine) is a tropane alkaloid found in the leaves and seeds of several plant species of the family Solanaceae, including deadly nightshade (Atropa bella-donna) and henbane (Hyoscyamus niger). Atropine, a...

A belladonna alkaloid (also known as HYOSCINE) that has action at MUSCARINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS. It has actions similar to those of ATROPINE: it is a CNS depressant that can produce drowsiness, EUPHORIA and AMNESIA. Medically its principal uses...

The fictional truth drug Hyoscine-pentothal does not describe real hyoscine accurately. Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is a tropane alkaloid drug with muscarinic antagonist effects. It is obtained from plants of the family Solanaceae...

Scientists are testing seasickness patches and other surprising options in a challenging search for new ways to treat the crushing depression and uncontrolled mania of bipolar disorder.Also called manic-depression, it's an illness that can rip careers and marriages apart and drive people to suicide. And...

Scientists are casting a wide net to find better treatments for the crushing depression and uncontrolled manias of bipolar disorder, and some approaches they're testing seem pretty surprising.Like skin patches that prevent seasickness. Or a drug that fights Lou Gehrig's disease. And then there's a...