Bita Moghaddam: Ketamine
Ketamine
Buch
- Penguin Random House LLC, 02/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780262542241
- Bestellnummer: 10412151
- Umfang: 208 Seiten
- Gewicht: 195 g
- Maße: 177 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 20 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.2.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as a treatment for depression.Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depression, has been touted by scientists and media reports as something approaching a miracle cure. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series chronicles the ascent of a drug that has been around for fifty years--in previous incarnations, a Vietnam-era combat anesthetic and a popular club drug--that has now been reinvented as a treatment for depression. Bita Moghaddam, a leading researcher in neuropharmacology, explains the scientific history and the biology of ketamine, its clinical use, and its recently discovered antidepressant effects, for the nonspecialist reader.