Catarina Vale Gomes

Novel mechanisms underlying rapid-acting antidepressants: ketamine-like compounds, neurosteroid GABAkines, and psychedelics.

Drug Discovery Today June 1, 2025 Sara Castanheira, Catarina Vale Gomes, Joana Bicker et al. 9 citations

The discovery of the rapid antidepressant action of ketamine accelerated the identification of new molecules that are associated with fast and prolonged relief of depressive symptoms. As a result, a new group of antidepressants have emerged, some of them already approved for clinical use, classified as rapid-acting antidepressant drugs (RAADs). Potentiation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor...