This article provides an in-depth look at the uses and mechanism of action of ketamine, a dissociative drug commonly used for anesthesia, depression, and chronic pain. It also covers the potential ...

Ketamine should be made a class A drug because people wrongly assume it is “safer” at its current classification, a senior coroner has suggested. Alison Mutch warned that people were under a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo neuroscientists have identified the binding site of low-dose ketamine, providing critical insight into how the medication, often described as a wonder drug, ...

Is ketamine safe to use? Soaring interest in psychedelics as a mental health treatment has fueled a boom of clinics across the U.S., touting the drug most commonly known in the club scene.

After Matthew Perry’s cause of death was listed as "acute effects of ketamine" on Friday, experts are speaking out about misconceptions surrounding the drug. (Other conditions that contributed ...

Ketamine is the drug involved in the death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry and a powerful anesthetic approved by U.S. health regulators for use during surgery.

In zebrafish, ketamine causes changes a brain circuit involved in "giving up." That may help explain how the drug helps people with depression.

Racemine ketamine: Usually given intravenously, it was approved by the FDA decades ago for use as an anesthetic, Harvard Medical states. It is a molecule mixture of "R" and "S" ketamine.

After the drug wore off, the astrocytes returned to their normal level of activity and tended to stay there, even when a fish was struggling. The team found that ketamine had a similar effect on ...