Lasers Highlight Ketamine's Depression-Fighting Secrets
Lasers Highlight Ketamine's Depression-Fighting Secrets
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 12, 20197m 43s
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Show Notes
Last month, the FDA approved esketamine, the nose spray version of ketamine, for treatment-resistant depression. You probably know by now that ketamine is a party drug, but it actually finds far wider use as an anesthetic on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines. Scientists have a good idea of how exactly it brings about its anesthetic charms, on account of it interacting with certain receptors in the brain.
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