Ketamine (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
The MIT Press
ISBN13:
9780262542241
$15.59
The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as 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 years--in previous incarnations, a Vietnam-era combat anesthetic and a popular club drug--that 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.
- | Author: Bita Moghaddam
- | Publisher: The MIT Press
- | Publication Date: February 16, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0262542242
- | ISBN-13: 9780262542241
- Author:
- Bita Moghaddam
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- Publication Date:
- February 16, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 208 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0262542242
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262542241