“…Under physiological conditions, inflammasome‐induced IL‐1β expression is essential as trophic support to promote long‐term potentiation and memory formation (Yirmiya, Winocur, & Goshen, 2002). However, at high levels, IL‐1β becomes excitotoxic, alters synaptic activity (Huang, Smith, Ibáñez‐Sandoval, Sims, & Friedman, 2011) and modulates monoaminergic and glutamatergic synaptic transmission (Hu, Sheng, Ehrlich, Peterson, & Chao, 2000; Ramamoorthy et al, 1995; Yang et al, 2019). Interestingly, it has been suggested that the antidepressant effect of ketamine that reverses LPS‐induced depressive‐like behaviours in mice correlates with hippocampal over‐expression of NLRP3 and IL‐1β (Li et al, 2019).…”