The emergence of ketamine as a novel treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder

A Feder, SB Rutter, D Schiller, DS Charney - Advances in pharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
A serious lack of effective pharmacotherapeutic interventions for posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) raises the urgent need for the development of novel treatments. Ketamine …

Pharmacological strategies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): From animal to clinical studies

A Gasparyan, D Navarro, F Navarrete… - Neuropharmacology, 2022 - Elsevier
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disabling psychiatric condition with a critical
familiar, personal, and social impact. Patients diagnosed with PTSD show various …

Ketamine metabolites, clinical response, and gamma power in a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial for treatment-resistant major depression

CA Farmer, JR Gilbert, R Moaddel, J George… - …, 2020 - nature.com
A single, subanesthetic dose of (R, S)-ketamine (ketamine) exerts rapid and robust
antidepressant effects. Several groups previously reported that (2S, 6S; 2R, 6R) …

Ketamine in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: a systematic review

ID Bandeira, DH Lins-Silva, VB Cavenaghi… - Harvard review of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Methods This systematic review aims to investigate the effects of ketamine in OCD, following
the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analyses Protocols (PRISMA …

Effects of an intravenous ketamine infusion on inflammatory cytokine levels in male and female Sprague–Dawley rats

HF Spencer, RY Berman, M Boese, M Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Ketamine, a multimodal dissociative anesthetic drug, is widely used as an
analgesic following traumatic injury. Although ketamine may produce anti-inflammatory …

On making (and turning adaptive to) maladaptive aversive memories in laboratory rodents

L Gazarini, CAJ Stern, LJ Bertoglio - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fear conditioning and avoidance tasks usually elicit adaptive aversive memories. Traumatic
memories are more intense, generalized, inflexible, and resistant to attenuation via …

Therapeutic challenges of post-traumatic stress disorder: focus on the dopaminergic system

SA Torrisi, GM Leggio, F Drago… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness developed by vulnerable
individuals exposed to life-threatening events. The pharmacological unresponsiveness …

Sex-specific effects of social isolation stress and ketamine on hippocampal plasticity

J Logue, K Schoepfer, AB Guerrero, Y Zhou… - Neuroscience …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chronic social isolation stress (SIS) induces lasting negative effects on the brain, including
memory deficits, cognitive impairments, and mood alterations such as depression and …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine beyond anesthesia: Antidepressant effects and abuse potential

KA Trujillo, SD Iñiguez - Behavioural brain research, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Ketamine was first synthesized in the early 1960s in search for anesthetic compounds and
has been a mainstay for anesthesia since its approval by the United States Food and Drug …

The role of mGluR5 on the therapeutic effects of ketamine in Wistar rats

D Gokalp, G Unal - Psychopharmacology, 2024 - Springer
Rationale Ketamine produces dissociative, psychomimetic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, and
anesthetic effects in a dose dependent manner. It has a complex mechanism of action that …