page_title: Phenylpiracetam
section_title: Availability
hierarchical_section_title: Phenylpiracetam / Availability
caption_attribution_description: English: Phenotropil as sold in Russia. Opened pack with blister inside.
context_page_description: Phenylpiracetam, is a phenylated analog of the drug piracetam. It was developed in 1983 as a medication for Soviet Cosmonauts to treat the prolonged stresses of working in space. Phenylpiracetam was created at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biomedical Problems in an effort led by psychopharmacologist Valentina Ivanovna Akhapkina. In Russia it is now available as a prescription drug. Research on animals has indicated that phenylpiracetam may have anti-amnesic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, and memory enhancement effects.
context_section_description: While not prescribed as a pharmaceutical in the West, in Russia it was available as a prescription medicine under the name Phenotropil until April 2017.
  Phenylpiracetam is not scheduled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
caption: Phenotropil 100 mg from Russia
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