{"id":117677,"date":"2020-12-27T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ketamine-may-ease-depression"},"modified":"2020-12-27T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T16:22:18","slug":"ketamine-may-ease-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/ketamine-may-ease-depression","title":{"rendered":"Ketamine may ease depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ketamine-may-ease-depression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason Asbahr.<\/p>\n<p>Reese Jones<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New research suggests that electrophysiological brain signals associated with neural plasticity could help explain the rapid, antidepressant effects of the drug ketamine. The findings, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0924977X20302340\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Neuropsychopharmacology<\/a><\/em>, indicate that ketamine could reverse insensitivity to prediction error in depression.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the drug may help to alleviate depression by making it easier for patients to update their model of reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKetamine is exciting because of its potential to both treat, and better understand depression. This is largely because ketamine doesn\u2019t work the way ordinary antidepressants do \u2013 its primary mechanism isn\u2019t to increase monoamines in the brain like serotonin, and so ketamine gives us new insight into other potential mechanisms underlying depression,\u201d said lead researcher Rachael Sumner, a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Auckland School of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Asbahr. Reese Jones New research suggests that electrophysiological brain signals associated with neural plasticity could help explain the rapid, antidepressant effects of the drug ketamine. The findings, European Neuropsychopharmacology, indicate that ketamine could reverse insensitivity to prediction error in depression. In other words, the drug may help to alleviate depression by making it easier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}