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How were pharmaceutical drugs such as Prozac or amphetamines discovered? Why is it so difficult to find the ideal medicine for each illness? Eduardo Punset talks today with Samuel Barondes, Psychiatrist at the University of California and lecturer on the effects of psychoactive drugs.

Find out more:

* ‘Better than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs‘, book by Samuel Barondes.
* ‘New pills for the mind’, interview on Edge.org.
* ‘Mental Illness’, article in TIME magazine.