The saying goes that no one is a prophet in their land. And a lot of times it's true. It's something you know very well Jordi Riba, a Catalan pharmacologist who has just been included in the North American magazine Rolling Stone In the list of the 25 most people influential In the prospective Of the science. Riba (Barcelona, 1968) enjoys recognition abroad. “I give an average of 10/12 conferences a year across Europe and the US,” he says. But here his investigations, so far, have not had as much impact. Maybe it's because of the substances he studies, which are somewhat exotic. This scientist is dedicated to the pharmacology of the central nervous system and to neurosciences in general. He has studied psychoactive substances that cause changes in perception and cognition, such as Ayahuasca, a kind of concoction that the indigenous peoples of the Amazon have been consuming since time immemorial. Thanks to his research, Riba, head of the Neuropsychopharmacology group at the Hospital de Sant Pau Research Institute, has unveiled part of the potential What is hiding this beverage, and he wanted to share it with La Vanguardia.
Source: La Vanguardia
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