What do you have to take into perspective when developing psychopharmaceutical drugs.

Question: What do you have to take into perspective when developing psychopharmaceutical drugs.
- Keywords:
  medicine,
  psychopharmaceutical
Asked by Mr.Walter.White to Zoe, Sarah, Elaine, David, Aaron on 13 Nov 2014.
- David Foley answered on 13 Nov 2014:
  
  Very good question. A key challenge for any drug that works in the brain is over coming the “blood-brain barrier”. This special layer of cells is designed to protect the brain from many chemicals, including a lot of drugs. Drugs that do cross it have very different properties in terms of how basic and water soluble they are.
- Zoe Roberts answered on 17 Nov 2014:
  
  Making drugs that work on a function of the brain is a challenging process. The drug needs to not only make it through standard digestion but it also needs to cross the blood-brain barrier. This barrier stops chemical from getting into the brain and damaging it. Drugs that are made to cross this barrier have to fulfill certain properties to acheive this.

Question: What do you have to take into perspective when developing psychopharmaceutical drugs.