Yuan-Yuan Lu

Mania following ketamine abuse.

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2016 Yuan-Yuan Lu, Chieh-Hsin Lin, Hsien-Yuan Lane 17 citations

Ketamine, a noncompetitive antagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, has multiple clinical uses. On the other hand, ketamine abuse or recreational use has been gaining increasing attention. Induction of mania and psychotic symptoms has been reported in a patient receiving IV ketamine therapy for reflex sympathetic dystrophy. We here report a 26 year-old man who abused ketamine by...