The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
ketamine treatment can reduce the output from the habenula to the reward pathway this disappointment to reward pathway weakening that making the reward pathway more available for engagement through thoughts and behaviors that are anti-depressive and in addition to that it can further bolster the neuroplasticity within the reward pathway itself in particular with connections with the frontal cortex
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it's now established that ketamine can improve connectivity that is it can strengthen the connections between areas of the brain that are associated with context dependent strategy building and these reward Pathways in other words it makes people more sensitive to whether or not they are getting the results they want from their efforts and to to how to adjust their efforts so that they do get the results they want from those efforts