Here we review hypotheses for the mechanism of action of ketamine as an antidepressant, including synaptic or GluN2B-selective extra-synaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) inhibition ...

Scientists from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new mechanism to help illustrate the rapid antidepressant qualities of ketamine. The large study imaged patients with treatment ...

When scientists tried to clarify ketamine’s mechanism of action in previous studies ... But since ketamine’s effect persists long after it leaves the body, its action could not be explained by mere ...

Looking closer, the researchers found a mechanism that could explain why ... ‘‘The consequence of this dual action of ketamine is that it does not induce the synaptic plasticity that addictive ...

Psychedelics such as ketamine, psilocybin ... and Song et al presents the first comprehensive mechanism explaining how various psychedelics, each interacting with different combinations of ...

Halloween party fights and the introduction of new 'swinger' Miranda, everyone's been left wondering - since when does everyone love ketamine? Ok, so it's not exactly what you think, and while in the ...

This is possible only with an understanding, even an incomplete one, of ketamine’s mechanism of action, she says: “ ‘Why’ is not trivial.” John Krystal of Yale University, whose work ...

Researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Sorbonne University and clinicians from the AP-HP and at Paris Brain Institute identified one of the mechanisms explaining ketamine effect as an antidepressant.