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Ketamine: How Special is Special K?

Science Vs

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The Effects of Ketamine on the Brain

Ketamine loosens up your brain circuits, which we think actually allows people to escape from the circuits where they're stuck. Even after ketamine is gone and out of your system, some of those circuitry changes seem to stick around. From studies in rodents, you can say that after these little tackers get ketamine, this kind of amazing thing happens. The brain cells and the branches that they use to talk to each other. Clump up and regrow.

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