Interaction of Sex and Age on the Dissociative Effects of Ketamine Action in Young Healthy Participants.

ABSTRACT: Ketamine is a drug that reduces depressive and elicits schizophrenia-like symptoms in humans. However, it is largely unexplored whether women and men differ with respect to ketamine-action and whether age contributes to drug-effects. In this study we assessed dissociative symptoms via the Clinician Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS) in a total of 69 healthy subjects aged between 18 and 30 years (early adulthood) after ketamine or placebo infusion. Dissociative symptoms were generally increased only in the ketamine group post-infusion. Specifically, within the ketamine group, men reported significantly more depersonalization and amnestic symptoms than women. Furthermore, with rising age only men were less affected overall with respect to dissociative symptoms. This suggests a se

SUBMITTER: Derntl B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6592148 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature