The antidepressant properties of the ketogenic diet

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 981-983

  Murphy, Patricia ^a   Likhodii, Sergei ^a   Nylen, Kirk ^a   Burnham, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

animal model; behavior; Depression; ketogenic diet; Porsolt test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MOOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); KETONES; KETOSIS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 10444265892     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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