ketamine for ptsd
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with traumatic stress experiences. This condition can be accompanied by learning and cognitive deficits.
- Studies have demonstrated that ketamine can rapidly and significantly alleviate symptoms in patients with chronic PTSD.
- Overall, ketamine reversed the single prolonged stress and electrophonic shock-induced fear, spatial memory impairment and the down-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and brain-derived neurotrophic facto-related post-synaptic density- signaling in the hippocampus and amygdala.
Teng Y, Niu J, Liu Y, Wang H, Chen J, Kong Y, Wang L, Lian B, Wang W, Sun H, Yue K. Ketamine alleviates fear memory and spatial cognition deficits in a PTSD rat model via the BDNF signaling pathway of the hippocampus and amygdala. Behav Brain Res. 2024 Feb 29;459:114792. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114792. Epub 2023 Dec 2. PMID: 38048914.
