Some evidence from previous randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews has demonstrated a positive association between hypertension and transcendental meditation (TM). However, other trials and reviews showed the effect of TM on blood pressure (BP) was unclear but did not use subgroup analysis to rigorously investigate this relationship. The American Heart Association has stated that...
Noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists, inclu ding ketamine and phencyclidine (PCP), produce abnormal intracellular vacuoles in posterior cingulate and retrosplenial cortical neurons in the rat. Ketamine also induces 70-kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) expression in pyramidal neurons in the posterior cingulate and retrosplenial cortex and, as shown by this study,...