Current Status of Ketamine and Related Therapies for Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 216-225

  Costi, Sara ^a   Van Dam, Nicholas T ^a   Murrough, James W ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Anxiety; Depression; Glutamate; Ketamine; Mood disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989176004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40473-015-0052-3     Document Type: Review

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