by Anastasia Lobanova, National Research University Higher School of Economics Izhikevich, Edelman / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America An international team of researchers including Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE University-Perm, found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain’s background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals...
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Brain ‘noise’ may hold the keys to psychiatric treatment efficacy
by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It remains a central challenge in psychiatry to reliably judge whether a patient will respond to treatment. In a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany show that moment-to-moment fluctuations in brain activity...