Ketamine, sometimes called a “party drug” , blocks the receptor for an excitatory neurotransmitter — those that cause neurons fire and se...
Ketamine, sometimes called a “party drug”, blocks the receptor for an excitatory neurotransmitter — those that cause neurons fire and send messages — called glutamate.
Ketamine (Ketalar) is a dissociative anesthetic.
Doctors use it to induce general anesthesia for medical procedures that do not require muscle relaxation.
General anesthesia denotes a sleep-like state, while dissociative refers to the effect of feeling disconnected.
Ketamine can produce hallucinations similarly to other drugs such as LSD and PCP, or angel dust.
It was originally used as an anaesthetic but researchers found that it had rapid antidepressant effects, acting within hours
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