Ketamine: More than Just NMDA Blocker
Ketamine Revisited - New Insights into NMDA Inhibitors September 14, 2022 Bhargab Deka, Biswajit Dash, Alakesh Bharali et al. 1 citation
Ketamine has been extensively used in the medical field for more than 50 years, but its exact mechanism of action remains unknown. It’s used to induce dissociative anesthesia (a state of profound analgesia, amnesia with light sleep, immobility, and a sense of disassociation from one’s own body and surroundings). Clinical studies on ketamine as a dissociative anesthetic, a model for psychosis,...