NMDA receptor
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Glutamate receptor class involved in ketamine effects
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentBenquoLessWrong (Curated & Popular) · "Is fever a symptom of glycine deficiency?" by Benquo · 2:00 · 24 Mar
…Glycine helps activate NMDA receptors in the brain's master circadian clock, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN.…
Rachel CarlsonShort Wave · What If You Took The "Trip" Out Of Ketamine? · 3:39 · Apr 2025
…Based on research in animal models, scientists think that ketamine works by binding to this specific receptor in the brain. It's called the NMDA receptor. But what also happens there is that it can give people this kind of dissociative feeling, like they're separated from their own bodies.…
Andrew HubermanHuberman Lab · Essentials: Understand and Use Dreams to Learn and Forget · 27:12 · Dec 2024
…Ketamine and PCP both function to disrupt the activity of a particular receptor in the brain called the NMDA receptor, N-methyldeaspartate receptor. This is a receptor that's in the surface of neurons or on the surface of neurons for which most of the time it's not active. But when something very extreme happens,…
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