Brain damages in ketamine addicts as revealed by magnetic resonance imaging
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy May 22, 2014 Chunmei Ewang, Dong Ezheng, Jie Exu et al. 123 citations
Chronic ketamine abuse causes diffuse brain damage visible on MRI. In 21 addicts with 0.5 to 12 years of use, lesions appeared in multiple brain regions after 2–4 years of addiction. Cortical atrophy was evident in the frontal, parietal, and occipital cortices. The pattern of injury differs from that caused by cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine.