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Ruud Van Zessen

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Dual action of ketamine confines addiction liability.

Nature August 2022 Linda D. Simmler, Yue Li, Lotfi C Hadjas et al.

Ketamine is used clinically as an anaesthetic and a fast-acting antidepressant, and recreationally for its dissociative properties, raising concerns of addiction as a possible side effect. Addictive drugs such as cocaine increase the levels of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. This facilitates synaptic plasticity in the mesolimbic system, which causes behavioural adaptations and eventually...