Mount Sinai researchers explore new depression treatment targeting brain’s potassium channels

Mount Sinai researchers explore new depression treatment targeting brain’s potassium channels

Publication date: May 22, 2025

“By specifically targeting VTA activity and connectivity, ezogabine could open the door to decidedly improved outcomes for people who struggle daily with depression and anhedonia. Murrough is a named inventor on a pending patent application for the use of ezogabine and other KCNQ channel openers to treat depression and related disorders. “This hypothesis will require confirmation in larger clinical trials. “Dr.

Concepts Keywords
Depressive Activity
Food Anhedonia
Neuroscience Brain
Potassium Channel
Depression
Ezogabine
Kcnq
Mount
Murrough
Provide
Psychiatry
Published
Sinai
Targeting
Treatment

Semantics

Type Source Name
pathway REACTOME Release
drug DRUGBANK Dopamine
disease MESH anhedonia
disease MESH seizures
disease MESH epilepsy
disease MESH Anxiety
drug DRUGBANK Ezogabine
disease MESH major depressive disorder
pathway REACTOME Potassium Channels
disease MESH depression

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