NMDA receptor function and human cognition: the effects of ketamine in healthy volunteers.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology May 1996 A K Malhotra, D A Pinals, H Weingartner et al.
A rapidly growing body of preclinical data has implicated the glutamatergic N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor in memory and other cognitive processes. There is comparatively less information about this receptor system in human cognition. We examined the effects of subanesthetic doses of ketamine, a noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, on two forms of memory, free recall and recognition,...