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New research reveals how ketamine repairs brain's reward system to fight depression

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 30, 2025
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Long-term stress can drain the color out of everything—sweet drinks taste bland and friends feel like strangers. According to research published in Neuron and reported by Eric W. Dolan in Psypost, a team of researchers learned how ketamine puts the color back.

They injected slow-release stress hormone under the skin of the …

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