The antidepressant actions of ketamine and its enantiomers

JN Johnston, ID Henter, CA Zarate Jr - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Ketamine, an N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist first developed as an
anesthetic, has shown significant promise as a medication with rapid antidepressant …

Are “mystical experiences” essential for antidepressant actions of ketamine and the classic psychedelics?

K Hashimoto - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical …, 2024 - Springer
The growing interest in the rapid and sustained antidepressant effects of the dissociative
anesthetic ketamine and classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin, is remarkable. However …

Synergistic psychedelic-NMDAR modulator treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders

U Heresco-Levy, B Lerer - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
Modern research data suggest a therapeutic role for serotonergic psychedelics in
depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders, although psychotomimetic effects may limit …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanistic divide in psychedelic neuroscience: An unbridgeable gap?

BR Barksdale, MK Doss, GA Fonzo, CB Nemeroff - Neurotherapeutics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, psychedelics have generated considerable excitement and interest as
potential novel therapeutics for an array of conditions, with the most advanced evidence …

Psychedelics for acquired brain injury: a review of molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential

J Allen, SS Dames, CJ Foldi, SR Shultz - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
Acquired brain injury (ABI), such as traumatic brain injury and stroke, is a leading cause of
disability worldwide, resulting in debilitating acute and chronic symptoms, as well as an …

Disease diagnosis and application analysis of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) in saliva detection

Y Li, C Guan, C Liu, Z Li, G Han - Talanta, 2023 - Elsevier
Saliva has significantly evolved as a diagnostic fluid in recent years, giving a non-invasive
alternative to blood analysis. A high protein concentration in saliva is delivered directly from …

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 …

Obligatory role of microglia-mobilized hippocampal CREB-BDNF signaling in the prophylactic effect of β-glucan on chronic stress-induced depression-like behaviors …

C Zhao, R Shi, X Lu, R Yang, Z Chen, B Chen… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Our previous studies have reported that pre-stimulation of microglia before stress stimulation
is a possible strategy to prevent depression-like phenotypes; however, the molecular …

Psychoactive substances 25H-NBOMe and 25H-NBOH induce antidepressant-like behavior in male rats

BG Ferri, CO de Novais, RS Bonani… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ring-substituted phenethylamines are believed to induce psychedelic effects primarily by
interacting with 5-hydroxytryptamine 2 (5-HT2A) receptors in the brain. We assessed the …

From helplessness to controllability: toward a neuroscience of resilience

MV Baratta, MEP Seligman, SF Maier - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
“Learned helplessness” refers to debilitating outcomes, such as passivity and increased
fear, that follow an uncontrollable adverse event, but do not when that event is controllable …