Could ketamine help treat depression?
The Decibel
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The Effects of Kedamin on Depression
Kedamin's effect could also involve a small but crucial brain structure. Researchers hypothesise that the lateral habinula in depressed people is turned up to 11. What should be an adaptive mechanism instead immerses you in an endless sense of failure. By blocking bursting activity facilitated by those n m d a receptors, what psychiatrist joshua rosenblatt calls removing the weeds. So kedamine comes at depression in a fundamentally different way than other drugs use to treat the illness. Crucially, it also does it faster. While drugs like selective serator reuptace inhibitors can take weeks to kick in, kedamine, when it works, can do so within hours.
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