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Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Psychology - Neuropsychology
Retail Price: $16.95
Pages: 208
The emergence of ketaminepreviously known as a combat anesthetic and club drugas a treatment for depression. Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depression, has been touted by scientists and media reports as something approaching a miracle cure. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series chronicles the ascent of a drug that has been around for fifty yearsin previous incarnations, a Vietnam-era combat anesthetic and a popular club drugthat has now been reinvented as a treatment for depression. Bita Moghaddam, a leading researcher in neuropharmacology, explains the scientific history and the biology of ketamine, its clinical use, and its recently discovered antidepressant effects, for the nonspecialist reader.