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Family history of alcohol dependence and initial antidepressant response to an N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Jan 2009
Phelps Laura E, Brutsche Nancy, Moral Jazmin R, Luckenbaugh David A, Manji Husseini K, Zarate Carlos A
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BACKGROUND: A high rate of comorbidity exists between mood disorders and alcohol dependence. Furthermore, both ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic with a recently described rapid-onset antidepressant effect, and ethanol are N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists. Previous investigations...
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