Back in August of 2021,招募正在进行中for a first-of-its-kind study to assess whether ketamine can help treat gambling addiction.

Now, the company behind the trial has expanded it to include three other behavioral addictions: binge eating disorder, compulsive sexual behavior and internet gaming disorder.

扩大的试验也将是同类试验中的第一个，由埃克塞特大学心理药理学教授，氯胺酮辅助疗法成瘾的疗法Awakn的生物技术公司Awakn，这是该研究背后的生物技术公司。

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According to some estimates, binge eating disorder affects around 110 million people around the world; internet gaming disorder is thought to affect 238 million and sexual compulsive behavior is thought to affect up to 350 million. Gambling disorder is understood to be one of the most prevalent addiction disorders, affecting an estimated 450 million people around the world.

“We are delighted to expand this research and to make further inroads into a treatment area that has had no material pharmacological advancements in far too long, all the while the number of people suffering has steadily increased,”摩根在一份声明中说。

“我们希望这将为我们提供宝贵的见解，以推动我们的氯胺酮计划前进并尽快帮助这些人。”

Morgan and her team aim to explore whether ketamine can help break the neural patterns in the brain that facilitate these behaviors. They’ll study whether the drug can increase the neuroplasticity of recruits using an electroencephalogram (EEG).

讲话分析大麻去年on Awakn’s gambling disorder study, Morgan explained the study’s design and her team aimed to test ketamine’s potential as a behavior-disrupting drug.

“We are using one of the capacities of the ketamine which is to block a process of re-stabilization of memory. In the study that we’re doing, we’re going to reactivate gambling memories. We’ll be showing people, depending on what their modality of gambling is, a roulette wheel or slot machines or horses, and this reactivates the memory,” she said.

“通常在内存中，这意味着此内存变得活跃，您可以更新它。然后，它被重新稳定 - 以计算机的方式再次保存 - 并更加强烈地放置。如果您在此重新激活期间给予氯胺酮，那么在动物中特别发现的是，这会削弱记忆痕迹。这就是我们在这项研究中所关注的。”