Ketamine can reduce harmful drinking by pharmacologically rewriting drinking memories

Memories linking environmental cues to alcohol reward are involved in the development and maintenance of heavy drinking. Here, the authors show that a single dose of ketamine, given after retrieval of alcohol-reward memories, disrupts the reconsolidation of these memories and reduces drinking in hum...

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Main Authors: Ravi K. Das, Grace Gale, Katie Walsh, Vanessa E. Hennessy, Georges Iskandar, Luke A. Mordecai, Brigitta Brandner, Merel Kindt, H. Valerie Curran, Sunjeev K. Kamboj
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/606a0f7b9edd4aabbf1cf2a46ff7ac24
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