For people antidepressants can’t help, ketamine changes the brain in ways we can now see In A Nutshell For the first time, researchers used a specialized brain scan to watch how ketamine alters a key ...

Researchers used a novel PET tracer to visualize how ketamine alters AMPA receptor distribution in the brains of patients with treatment-resistant depression. Receptor density increased in cortical ...

In recent years, a drug called ketamine has attracted attention because it can reduce depressive symptoms very quickly. Unlike traditional antidepressants, which may take weeks to work, ketamine can ...

In this study, researchers used positron emission tomography and a special tracer to study the relationship between the distribution of an important neuronal receptor (AMPA) and the occurrence and ...

Researchers from Japan have uncovered direct evidence showing how ketamine exerts its rapid antidepressant effects in ...

The research, published June 4 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, identifies critical connections between activity of the epilepsy drug perampanel and the resulting movements of the AMPA ...

While the COVID pandemic has thankfully been over for some time now, there is still a considerable number of people in the world (about 400 million) suffering from long COVID. Long COVID is a chronic ...