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Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clearmind Medicine Inc. (Nasdaq: CMND) (“Clearmind” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company advancing non-hallucinogenic psychedelic-derived neuroplastogens for scalable treatment  of neuropsychiatric, metabolic, and addiction disorders including Alcohol Use Disorder (“AUD”),  today announced that it is among the invitees to join researchers, clinicians, federal agency representatives, and policymakers at the Frontiers of Mental Health and Recovery Summit being held this week in Washington D.C..

Convened by BrainFutures with the support of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, Clearmind's Chief of Global Impact, Mary-Elizabeth Gifford, has been asked to join what BrainFutures describes as "a select group of leaders shaping the future of mental health care," through hands-on participation in two days of "collaborative working sessions" to begin to tackle the question of how to "accelerate system readiness for psychedelic therapies."

"Our approach at Clearmind Medicine is to support 'system readiness' to advance a next-generation, psychedelic-derived neuroplastogen treatment model that could potentially reduce the need for lengthy and costly supervised dosing," said Gifford.

Gifford added that such "a scalable treatment model could open a new chapter in American mental health." She will also share insights on CMND-100, Clearmind Medicine's investigational MEAI-based, non-hallucinogenic neuroplastogen candidate being developed to treat Alcohol Use Disorder, as well as updates from Clearmind's Phase ll clinical trials at Yale School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Patient access was also the focus when the FDA invited Gifford to speak at its recent historic hearing on psychedelic medicine in September 2026. Gifford told the FDA then that Clearmind was working toward "responsible patient access, not through new expensive frameworks that are yet to be built, but through America's already-existing primary care and VA resources."

Clearmind Medicine CEO Adi Zuloff-Shani, PhD, noted "Advancing new approaches to addiction and mental health treatment requires collaboration across science, clinical research, policy, and healthcare." Zuloff-Shani added, "I thank the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation and the leadership of BrainFutures for asking our field: 'what can we do together that cannot be done apart?'"

Keynote speakers scheduled to set the agenda for the two days of working sessions include Mike Davis, MD,PhD, of the FDA, Rick Lambert, MD, of SAMHSA, Carol Hubner,PhD, of NIDA,  Leith States, MD, MPH, MBA FACPM of States Strategies, Glenn Cohen, JD, of the Petrie Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and Andrew Gradison, JD, Veterans Health Administration.

About Clearmind Medicine Inc.

Clearmind is a clinical-stage neuroplastogens pharmaceutical biotech company focused on the discovery and development of non-hallucinogenic, second generation, neuroplastogen-derived therapeutics to solve widespread and underserved health problems, including alcohol use disorder. Its primary objective is to research and develop psychedelic-based compounds and attempt to commercialize them as regulated medicines, foods, or supplements.

The Company’s intellectual property portfolio currently consists of nineteen patent families, including 32 granted patents. The Company intends to seek additional patents for its compounds whenever warranted and will remain opportunistic regarding the acquisition of additional intellectual property to build its portfolio.

Shares of Clearmind are listed for trading on Nasdaq under the symbol "CMND."

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