Ketamine accelerates fear extinction via mTORC1 signaling
Girgenti MJ, Ghosal S, LoPresto D, Taylor JR, Duman RS. Ketamine accelerates fear extinction via mTORC1 signaling. Neurobiology Of Disease 2016, 100: 1-8. PMID: 28043916, PMCID: PMC5907920, DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2016.12.026.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPost-traumatic stress disorderMedial prefrontal cortexTreatment of PTSDFear conditioningRetrieval of extinctionExpression of extinctionActivity-dependent effectsTraumatic memoriesStress disorderExtinction exposurePTSD patientsPrefrontal cortexEffects of ketamineGlutamate NMDA receptor antagonistSymptom severityConditioningInfusion of ketamineExtinctionCuesRodent modelsMemoryKetamine administrationReceptor antagonistPresent studyNMDA receptor antagonist