Study answers why ketamine helps depression, offers target for safer therapy

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a key protein that helps trigger ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects in the brain, a crucial step to developing alternative treatments to the controversial drug being dispensed in a growing number of clinics across the country.

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