Unlike conventional antidepressants, which aim to increase your pleasant mood, ketamine does the opposite by blocking unpleasant feelings. Understanding how ketamine acts so quickly could provide greater insight into the core mechanisms of depression and help to develop a ketamine alternative that does not have the same side effects as the drug itself.
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