The effects of ketamine on dopaminergic function: meta-analysis and review of the implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

M Kokkinou, AH Ashok, OD Howes - Molecular psychiatry, 2018 - nature.com
Ketamine is a non-competitive antagonist at the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor. It has
recently been found to have antidepressant effects and is a drug of abuse, suggesting it may …

Fast-acting antidepressant activity of ketamine: highlights on brain serotonin, glutamate, and GABA neurotransmission in preclinical studies

TH Pham, AM Gardier - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Ketamine, a non-competitive antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, displays
a fast antidepressant activity in treatment-resistant depression and in rodent models of …

NMDAR hypofunction animal models of schizophrenia

G Lee, Y Zhou - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) hypofunction hypothesis has been proposed to
help understand the etiology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia. This hypothesis was …

Altered cortical ensembles in mouse models of schizophrenia

JP Hamm, DS Peterka, JA Gogos, R Yuste - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
In schizophrenia, brain-wide alterations have been identified at the molecular and cellular
levels, yet how these phenomena affect cortical circuit activity remains unclear. We studied …

Sex differences in the rapid and the sustained antidepressant-like effects of ketamine in stress-naïve and “depressed” mice exposed to chronic mild stress

A Franceschelli, J Sens, S Herchick, C Thelen… - Neuroscience, 2015 - Elsevier
During the past decade, one of the most striking discoveries in the treatment of major
depression was the clinical finding that a single infusion of a sub-anesthetic dose of the N …

Ketamine rapidly enhances glutamate-evoked dendritic spinogenesis in medial prefrontal cortex through dopaminergic mechanisms

M Wu, S Minkowicz, V Dumrongprechachan… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Ketamine elicits rapid onset antidepressant effects in patients with clinical
depression through mechanisms hypothesized to involve the genesis of neocortical …

Attenuated dopamine signaling after aversive learning is restored by ketamine to rescue escape actions

M Wu, S Minkowicz, V Dumrongprechachan… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Escaping aversive stimuli is essential for complex organisms, but prolonged exposure to
stress leads to maladaptive learning. Stress alters neuronal activity and neuromodulatory …

Prevention and reversal of ketamine-induced schizophrenia related behavior by minocycline in mice: possible involvement of antioxidant and nitrergic pathways

AS Monte, GC de Souza, RS McIntyre… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
It has been hypothesized that oxidative imbalance and alterations in nitrergic signaling play
a role in the neurobiology of schizophrenia. Preliminary evidence suggests that adjunctive …

Reversal and preventive pleiotropic mechanisms involved in the antipsychotic-like effect of taurine, an essential β-amino acid in ketamine-induced experimental …

B Ben-Azu, CI Uruaka, AM Ajayi, TA Jarikre… - Neurochemical …, 2023 - Springer
Schizophrenia is a life disabling, multisystem neuropsychiatric disease mostly derived from
complex epigenetic-mediated neurobiological changes causing behavioural deficits …

New paradigms for treatment‐resistant depression

C Zarate, RS Duman, G Liu, S Sartori… - Annals of the New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical depression is a serious mental disorder characterized by low mood, anhedonia, loss
of interest in daily activities, and other symptoms, and is associated with severe …