SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Aasen Thomas H (Last) (First) (Middle) 3911 SORRENTO VALLEY BOULEVARD (Street) SAN DIEGO CA 92121 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS INC [ ACAD ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) Vice Pres., CFO, Treas. & Sec.
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 03/07/2008
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Stock option (right to buy)	$8.32	03/07/2008		A		26,000		(1)	03/06/2018	Common Stock	26,000	$0	26,000	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. 25% of the shares subject to the Stock Option vest and become exercisable on March 7, 2009. The remaining shares vest and become exercisable thereafter in 36 equal monthly installments.

	/s/ Glenn F. Baity, attorney-in-fact	03/11/2008
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby authorizes Uli Hacksell, Glenn F. Baity or Kirk V. Crawford to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer of ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 and any Amendments thereto or other forms or applications related thereto, and cause such
form(s) to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, relating to the undersigned's beneficial ownership of securities in the Company.  The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or substitute or substitutes of such attorney-in-fact, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall (a) remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact and (b) replace the Power of Attorney, from June 2004, which relates to the same subject matter.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed this 11th day of March 2008.



	/s/ Thomas H. Aasen
	Thomas H. Aasen