Using Laughing Gas to Treat Depression (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Nitrous oxide, often called laughing gas, has been used in medicine and in dentistry for more than 150 years. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis may have found a new use for it: as a treatment for clinical depression. Jim Dryden reports...

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