Posted by europerep on April 3, 2015, at 7:37:32
In reply to Re: Ketamine and ketamine-like drugs, posted by linkadge on April 2, 2015, at 20:14:26
> Not necessarily. Ketamine also increases serotonin.
That would still leave open the question of the almost instantaneous onset of antidepressant effects of ketamine. So even if its mechanism of action is similar to that of SSRIs (which I doubt), it still does it much better.
It would be interesting to see whether patients who respond to (or even remit on) SSRIs also respond to ketamine.
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