Therapeutic mechanisms of psychedelics and entactogens

BD Heifets, DE Olson - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent clinical and preclinical evidence suggests that psychedelics and entactogens may
produce both rapid and sustained therapeutic effects across several indications. Currently …

Overlap in the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms underlying ketamine abuse and its use as an antidepressant

SS Kokane, RJ Armant, CA Bolaños-Guzmán… - Behavioural brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic and psychedelic compound, has revolutionized the field
of psychopharmacology by showing robust, and rapid-acting antidepressant activity in …

Astrocytic lactate dehydrogenase A regulates neuronal excitability and depressive-like behaviors through lactate homeostasis in mice

S Yao, MD Xu, Y Wang, ST Zhao, J Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Alterations in energy metabolism are associated with depression. However, the role of
glycolysis in the pathogenesis of depression and the underlying molecular mechanisms …

Increased intrinsic and synaptic excitability of hypothalamic POMC neurons underlies chronic stress-induced behavioral deficits

X Fang, Y Chen, J Wang, Z Zhang, Y Bai… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic stress exposure induces maladaptive behavioral responses and increases
susceptibility to neuropsychiatric conditions. However, specific neuronal populations and …

GALR2 and Y1R agonists intranasal infusion enhanced adult ventral hippocampal neurogenesis and antidepressant‐like effects involving BDNF actions

JE Alvarez‐Contino, E Díaz‐Sánchez… - Journal of Cellular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis is linked to major depressive disorder
(MDD), with more than 300 million people diagnosed and worsened by the COVID‐19 …

Role of the mesolimbic dopamine pathway in the antidepressant effects of ketamine

AM Cardona-Acosta, CA Bolaños-Guzmán - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Depression is a complex and highly heterogeneous disorder which diagnosis is based on
an exceedingly variable set of clinical symptoms. Current treatments focus almost …

Integrative multi-omics landscape of fluoxetine action across 27 brain regions reveals global increase in energy metabolism and region-specific chromatin remodelling

NA Rayan, V Kumar, J Aow, N Rastegar, MGL Lim… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Depression and anxiety are major global health burdens. Although SSRIs targeting the
serotonergic system are prescribed over 200 million times annually, they have variable …

The Montreal model: an integrative biomedical-psychedelic approach to ketamine for severe treatment-resistant depression

N Garel, J Drury, J Thibault Lévesque… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Subanesthetic ketamine has accumulated meta-analytic evidence for rapid
antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), resulting in both excitement …

Repurposing ketamine in depression and related disorders: can this enigmatic drug achieve success?

E Carboni, AR Carta, E Carboni, A Novelli - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Repurposing ketamine in the therapy of depression could well represent a breakthrough in
understanding the etiology of depression. Ketamine was originally used as an anesthetic …

The neurophysiology of ketamine: an integrative review

R McMillan, SD Muthukumaraswamy - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2020 - degruyter.com
The drug ketamine has been extensively studied due to its use in anaesthesia, as a model of
psychosis and, most recently, its antidepressant properties. Understanding the physiology of …