A new route to fast-acting antidepressants - The Biological SCENE

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A new route to fast-acting antidepressantsThe Biological SCENEA decade ago, scientists found that a small dose of ketamine can also serve as a fast-acting antidepressant. Then last year, researchers discovered that ketamine's antidepressant activity comes from a metabolite, (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine (HNK), which ...