The experimental drug ketamine has been shown to reduce symptoms of major depression, even in treatment-resistant patients, within hours of a single intravenous administration. A medicine based…
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Newly reported results of a small phase 2 clinical trial indicate the potential utility of using nitrous oxide treatments in patients with severe major depression that has not responded to other…
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A new window may be opening on the treatment of chronic PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Results of a newly published clinical trial suggest that repeated infusions of the drug ketamine over a…
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Researchers have identified cells and circuits in a specific area of the brain that are involved in generating the subjective state called dissociation.
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Although new knowledge about the brain’s reward circuitry has provided insight into the biology of addiction, this has not yet resulted in new treatments. In animal models of addiction, it has been…
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