Raising Endogenous Brain Levels of Kynurenic Acid May Produce Anti-Reward and Enhance Suicide Ideation

Kenneth Blum^1,3,4,5*, Marlene- Oscar-Berman², Eric R Braverman^1,3 and Mark S Gold¹

¹Department of Psychiatry, Mcknight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

²Department of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine and Veterans Administration System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

³Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, USA

⁴Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Malibu Beach Recovery Center, Malibu Beach, California, USA

⁵Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA

^*Corresponding Author: Kenneth Blum, Department of Psychiatry, Mcknight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, Tel: 619-890-2167 Email: