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Ketamine: How Special is Special K?

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The Effects of Ketamine on Depression

The Black Dog Institute in Sydney is testing ketamine on severely depressed patients. Professor Colleen Lu wanted to know, could this be due to the good old placebo effect? She set up a small trial to find out when neither she nor her patients knew whether they were getting ketamine or a placebo. And she found it still worked.

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