University of Michigan Scientists Say Elevated Glutamate Neurotransmitter in Brain Causes Desire. The work of glutamate is largely dependent on the presence of quinolinic acid, which prompts cells to use this neurotransmitter more intensively..

Researchers tested the level of acid in the spinal cord in hundreds of patients, of which two-thirds were hospitalized after a failed suicide attempt..

In the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, scientists write that the amount of quinolinic acid completely coincided with suicidal.

Those who attempted suicide of quinolinic acid had an average of two times more, and the higher its level, the more painful thoughts a person had. Six months later, the researchers reanalyzed the condition of the same patients, those who had lost their suicidal thoughts also had an acid level decrease..

If psychoneurologists and psychiatrists had glutamine blockers, this would make it possible to save many human lives..

Ketamine has this effect, but its widespread use is impossible: it has too many narcotic effects.

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