Letter to the Editor: Does ketamine exert a fast-acting antidepressant effect via inhibition of pro-inflammatory cytokines?

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1787-

  Yang, Jian Jun ^a   Zhou, Zhi Qiang ^a   Yang, Chun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE;

DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 80055019688     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711000699     Document Type: Letter

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