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  • Tiny fish on ketamine may show how drug eases depression

    Tiny fish on ketamine may show how drug eases depression

    Jon Hamilton A single dose of the anesthetic ketamine can provide weeks of relief from severe depression. One reason may be that the drug causes long-term changes to a brain circuit involved in “giving up,” a team reports in the journal Neuron. The team found that in zebrafish, ketamine alters this circuit in a way…