Ketamine triggers activity of a neurotransmitter called glutamate in the frontal cortex of your brain. It also allows more synapses, which allow information to flow inside your brain, to form in ...

Encouraged by initial successes with ketamine, researchers including Peter Nagele, a professor of anesthesia and psychiatry ...

The drug increases levels of a glutamate in the brain, a neurotransmitter crucial to mood regulation, learning, memory, and information processing. Ketamine therapy works by taking an extremely ...

As a dissociative anesthetic with unique psychological properties, ketamine fosters neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to reorganize and form new neural connections—while also reducing ...

New study helps explain the mechanisms by which nitrous oxide affects the brain, potentially offering insights that could help relieve treatment-resistant depression.

Researchers at Zhejiang University found that acute stress increases natural repair mechanisms in the brain, while chronic ...

Boosting the recycling process known as autophagy — impaired in the brain during prolonged stress — has the potential to restore normal neuronal activity and treat depression. Yang and ...

who has pioneered a government programme in the use of ketamine, wants to open up research here into psychedelics. open image in gallery PTSD is a vicious circle of glitching between the brain’s ...