Sentences with phrase «ketamine did»

In a series of experiments using mouse and rat models of depression reported today in Nature, Hu and her colleagues found that ketamine did affect the lateral habenula — but it was the pattern of firing, rather than the overall amount of activity, that proved crucial.

And while the benefits seen in this small study are encouraging, Canuso's team stressed that ketamine does come with a potential for abuse.

Not exact matches

Gould and Georgiou say that their results don't necessarily invalidate previous studies; they simply show that ketamine experiments in their lab work only when men inject the mice.

When eight male and eight female researchers injected mice with ketamine, they saw the same results: mice injected by women did not respond to the drug.

And to Gould's surprise, the metabolite did not cause side effects in the mice even at doses nearly 40 times higher than the antidepressant dose of ketamine.

Duman and his colleagues are trying to learn lessons from ketamine, an anesthetic and painkiller that is also sold illicitly under the name «Special K.» The group has shown in rats that ketamine rapidly causes neurons to make new contacts with one another and, apparently by so doing, produces antidepressant effects.

«What this suggests is that losing Narp doesn't affect the response to the ketamine, meaning the antidepressant could be acting through a different mechanism than ECT 3/4 suggesting that there may be multiple ways to treat depression, including unknown pathways that use ECT's mechanism,» says Reti.

I encourage you to read the entire article and take note of the following: the side - effects seen with medications over the years and the fact that doctors «don't know the consequences and potential side effects of taking tiny doses of ketamine over and over again»; «she tried nearly everything» (you'll read this in all the articles advocating for ketamine but unfortunately they are only referring to medications); the ketamine effects are temporary and cost $ 15,000 per year (and are not covered by insurance); and ketamine «is thought to stimulate an opioid receptor in the brain» and is already known to be addictive.

If you're in London and not doing the fun stuff like eating curry in Shoreditch, buying Ketamine in Brixton or brown - bagging beers in Camden (brown - bagless, of course), the annual Turner Prize awaits your amusement at...