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Researchers find ketamine can increase brain noise
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of researchers has found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain's background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals and disrupting their transmission between the thalamus and the cortex.
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Research reveals how ketamine acts as 'switch' in brain
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Ketamine, an established anesthetic and increasingly popular antidepressant, dramatically reorganizes activity in the brain, as if a switch had been flipped on its active circuits, according to a new study by Penn Medicine researchers.
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