Thursday 18 April 2019

Ketamine rebuilds connections between neurons lost during stress

a post by Mark Frauenfelder for the Boing Boing blog



Ketamine has been used as a horse tranquilizer, infant anesthetic, recreational drug, and most recently, a surprisingly effective treatment for depression (which the US Food and Drug Administration approved last month). Now researchers are starting to understand how ketamine works: by rebuilding connections between neurons lost during stress.

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