HEARING a familiar ping, mum Jo Forsdyke picks up her son’s phone and sees a text which sends a dagger through her heart.

In fact, there may be physiological resonance between the placebo effect -- in other words, hope -- and how ketamine works. Studies suggest that both may be mediated in part by the brain's μ ...

The study’s findings revealed that ketamine had a notable effect on how participants’ brains processed touch, especially touch generated by another person. In a typical (placebo) state ...

This overstimulation, which occurs through ketamine's stimulation of noradrenergic neurons that activate astrocytes, appears to subsequently reduce the astroglia counter's sensitivity, causing the ...

A promising drug will usually cause the animal to struggle longer before giving up. Ketamine had this effect on zebrafish. Astrocytes are key Meanwhile, the researchers were using a high-powered ...

where as many as 50% of trials fail to show an effect compared with a placebo. Sanacora said it’s very likely that the study participants could have known they were getting ketamine, rather than ...

ketamine can “stop” some of that faulty thinking, that rumination effect – the cycle of like, ‘Everything bad is happening. Only bad things happen.’ Ketamine can come in and silence that ...

New details about Elon Musk's relationship with ketamine have emerged a few days after the tech entrepreneur announced his departure from the White House. Although Musk had previously mentioned ...

Ketamine is the only legal psychedelic medication ... feelings that people sometimes experience are essentially a side effect, which can be pleasant for some and unpleasant for others.