A single dose of ketamine could alter communication between different brain regions. This discovery opens new perspectives ...

Ketamine leads to increased communication between areas of the brain that don't typically engage with each other, new ...

Double-action mechanism found that makes ketamine less addictive. Researchers hooked mice up to catheters and allowed them to self-administer ketamine to study its effects on the dopamine system .

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.

More information: Radhika Rawat et al, Ketamine's rapid and sustained antidepressant effects are driven by distinct mechanisms, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s00018-024 ...

Is ketamine a treatment for depression? What are the risks? ... “It may not matter, but it does concern me, personally, that ketamine works through an opioid mechanism,” he says.

To understand what ketamine is and how it works, we have to understand some things about the brain – one of the world's most complicated and beautiful systems. Let’s boil synaptic connections ...

How Ketamine Works. Unlike traditional antidepressants that often work by altering serotonin levels, ketamine targets the ...

University at Buffalo neuroscientists have identified the binding site of low-dose ketamine, providing critical insight into how the medication, often described as a wonder drug, alleviates symptoms ...

This mixed effect could be what makes ketamine so unusual. This mechanism of action is quite different from more typical antidepressants which are thought to work by primarily impacting the ...

Financial District-based Being Health opened in January 2024 with $5.4 million in funding from 18 Park and HDS Capital; it offers ketamine treatment sessions for $550 or a package of 6 infusions ...