Ketamine contributes to understanding of pathways that can alleviate depression

Dr. Barry Dworkin

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 20, 2010

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‘Magic drug’ gives hope to bipolar patients

Reference:

“mTOR-Dependent Synapse Formation Underlies the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of NMDA Antagonists.”
Nanxin Li, Boyoung Lee, Rong-Jian Liu, Mounira Banasr, Jason M. Dwyer, Masaaki Iwata, Xiao-Yuan Li, George Aghajanian, Ronald S. Duman
Science, 20 August 2010: Vol. 329. no. 5994, pp. 959 – 964
DOI: 10.1126/science.1190287

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