{"id":415712,"date":"2025-09-11T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T11:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:59:12","slug":"somerset-study-to-test-if-cbd-reduces-parkinsons-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/415712\/","title":{"rendered":"Somerset study to test if CBD reduces Parkinson&#8217;s psychosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Researchers in Somerset are joining others across the UK to investigate whether cannabidol, or CBD, can treat psychotic symptoms in Parkinson&#8217;s patients.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Studies have shown that CBD may reduce psychosis, although it had not yet been tested with Parkinson&#8217;s patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset NHS Foundation Trust said around three in five people with the condition experienced symptoms including hallucinations or delusions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS said the trial could offer a safer option as current treatments for the condition were not effective, safe, or convenient for regular use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers in Somerset are joining others across the UK to investigate whether cannabidol, or CBD, can treat psychotic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115185553452726920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}