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Sunday 14 April 2019

Ketamine may relieve depression by mending broken bridges in the brain

New research has shed more light on how ketamine relieves depressive symptoms in mice

Though it is already administered in off-label doses at clinics across the US for its rapid anti-depressant effects and, significantly, was approved in nasal spray form by the FDA last month, there remains a lot to learn about ketamine and its close chemical relatives. A new study has shed more light on how it can stave off depressive symptoms, with experiments on mice revealing how it repairs busted circuits in the brain.

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