Ketamine helps see how the brain works in clinical depression
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 05:20
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- In a new study published in Nature, Lisa Monteggia from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center looks at how the drug ketamine, typically used as an anesthetic or a popular recreational drug for its hallucinogenic affect, works in the brain to treat severe clinical depression.