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Thank you! Could we simplify that accurately as "this could potentially be therapeutic for people suffering from schizophrenia"?

• tbalsam 4y ago
  Ketamine is often used as what's called a psychotomimetic to mimic the effects of schizophrenia in drug models of the disorder, so while technically maybe, the answer is "probably not". You generally don't want to add the drug used to model a disorder in the normal population to someone already having that disorder (unless we're wanting to do something like Xtreme Homeopathy: Lab Edition™ or something like that lol.)
  • plusminusplus 4y ago
    That's why it's shocking and exciting to see it be used to successfully treat depression, a chemical where very much the dose makes the poison I suppose