Hey, @justtryme90. This is a great post! There are so many new applications being seen for ketamine recently. In the compounding pharmacy that I used to work at, we filled prescriptions for a plethora of different reasons. I have read and heard a lot about the usefulness for depression in the medical community, but there are many other reasons to be excited about ketamine's partial antagonistic effects!
I talk a bit about ketamine for treatment of PTSD in this post if you are interested!
I will certainly be following you and looking out for more posts like this! Cheers :)
Thats a nice post, you should consider including the #steemstem tag so the curators might not miss subsequent ones.
Yeah, I only more recently became aware of the steemstem project. I am so impressed by it, and want to thank you so much for your work, @justtryme90. You have helped create an amazing ecosystem of informative and enjoyable content!!!
I just wrote a more molecular neuroscience dense article using the #steemstem tag this morning: Molecules to Mental States: Psychological Stress and Cell Death. Thanks so much again!
Also, a typo that I noticed: "Ketamine however, is an agonist of this receptor, in this case it stops the NMDA receptor from firing."
It is actually a selective antagonist, which as you state reduces the excitability of the neuron.
It's always nice to know they're looking into how these things actually work, may see more targeted drugs in the future come from this research, although there aren't that many negative side-effects it seems from paired ketamine/therapy sessions.
But what does cinnamon toast crunch cure?
Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out. :)