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Newly discovered actions of ketamine in pain and breathing regulation ResearchPod
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Chronic pain is difficult to treat and affects the individual’s quality of life, often leading to severe disability. Ketamine was initially used in anaesthesia, but since the 1990s it has also been used in a much lower dose as a treatment for acute and chronic pain. and also works as an antidepressant
Professor Albert Dahan and colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center managed to unlock some of ketamine’s previously unknown mechanisms of action against pain, its psychedelic effects, and also new actions on the heart and breathing mechanism.
Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004176
Read more in Research Outreach
Chronic pain is difficult to treat and affects the individual’s quality of life, often leading to severe disability. Ketamine was initially used in anaesthesia, but since the 1990s it has also been used in a much lower dose as a treatment for acute and chronic pain. and also works as an antidepressant
Professor Albert Dahan and colleagues at the Leiden University Medical Center managed to unlock some of ketamine’s previously unknown mechanisms of action against pain, its psychedelic effects, and also new actions on the heart and breathing mechanism.
Read the original research: https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004176
Read more in Research Outreach
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