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Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) NeuroImage Clinical

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A multicenter study of ketamine effects on functional connectivity: Large scale network relationships, hubs and symptom mechanisms

Leah Fleming, Daniel C. Javitt, Cameron S. Carter, Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Ragy R. Girgis, Lawrence S. Kegeles, et al.
NeuroImage Clinical Summary & key facts 2019 32 citations

Ketamine is a drug that blocks NMDA glutamate receptors and can produce symptoms like those of schizophrenia in healthy people. In this multicenter study the researchers compared resting-state brain scans after ketamine or placebo and looked at key brain networks, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and thalamic sub-nuclei. They found…

Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Mental Health Research Topics Treatment of Major Depression
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