Rapid‐acting antidepressant ketamine, its metabolites and other candidates: A historical overview and future perspective

K Hashimoto - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most disabling psychiatric disorders.
Approximately one‐third of the patients with MDD are treatment resistant to the current …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of ketamine enantiomers and its metabolites

C Yang, J Yang, A Luo, K Hashimoto - Translational psychiatry, 2019 - nature.com
Although the robust antidepressant effects of the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)
antagonist ketamine in patients with treatment-resistant depression are beyond doubt, the …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine and rapid-acting antidepressants: a new era in the battle against depression and suicide

RS Duman - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Therapeutic medications for the treatment of depression have serious limitations, particularly
delayed onset and low rates of efficacy. However, the discovery that a single subanesthetic …

Glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta (GSK-3β) signaling: implications for Parkinson's disease

M Golpich, E Amini, F Hemmati, NM Ibrahim… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3) dysregulation plays an important role in the
pathogenesis of numerous disorders, affecting the central nervous system (CNS) …

[HTML][HTML] Eradicating suicide at its roots: preclinical bases and clinical evidence of the efficacy of ketamine in the treatment of suicidal behaviors

D De Berardis, M Fornaro, A Valchera… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the continuous advancement in neurosciences as well as in the knowledge of
human behaviors pathophysiology, currently suicide represents a puzzling challenge. The …

A brief history of antidepressant drug development: from tricyclics to beyond ketamine

VS Pereira, VA Hiroaki-Sato - Acta neuropsychiatrica, 2018 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveAlthough monoaminergic-targeted drugs have prompted great advances in the
development of treatments for depression, the need for new options persists, since these …

Role of neuronal VEGF signaling in the prefrontal cortex in the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine

S Deyama, E Bang, ES Wohleb, XY Li… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine produces rapid and
sustained antidepressant actions even in patients with treatment-resistant depression …

[HTML][HTML] Parkinson's disease: potential actions of lithium by targeting the WNT/β-catenin pathway, oxidative stress, inflammation and glutamatergic pathway

A Vallée, JN Vallée, Y Lecarpentier - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the major neurodegenerative diseases (ND) which
presents a progressive neurodegeneration characterized by loss of dopamine in the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta in neurodegenerative diseases

H Yu, M Xiong, Z Zhang - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) pose an increasingly prevalent threat to the well-being
and survival of elderly individuals worldwide. NDDs include Alzheimer's disease (AD) …

[HTML][HTML] GLYX-13 produces rapid antidepressant responses with key synaptic and behavioral effects distinct from ketamine

RJ Liu, C Duman, T Kato, B Hare, D Lopresto… - …, 2017 - nature.com
GLYX-13 is a putative NMDA receptor modulator with glycine-site partial agonist properties
that produces rapid antidepressant effects, but without the psychotomimetic side effects of …