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What are hypo and hyperglutamatergic actions of dissociatives?

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Ketamine, PCP, and related dissociatives may actually increase glutamate in certain brain areas and thereby produce some of the drugs’ behavioral effects PCP and ketamine: NMDA receptor blockade / increase glutamatergic neurotransmission at AMPA receptors


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