Ketamine-induced optimism: New hope for the development of rapid-acting antidepressants

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Sanacora, Gerard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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