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Neuroimaging studies on ketamine

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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.

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Among anaesthetics, ketamine has the distinction of being the only antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors approved for clinical use and a potent analgesic with only mild cardiovascular and respiratory depressant properties [1]. Ketamine, however, also has disadvantageous psychomimetic activity, which has been the major factor in limiting ketamine clinical use but also in modelling psychoses in animal and humans [1]. For all these reasons, ketamine has been extensively investigated with neuroimaging techniques.

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Freo, U., Ori, C. (2004). Neuroimaging studies on ketamine. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2189-1_18

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