Ketamine for depression is a fairly new treatment. Clinics using it have just sprung up over the last few years. This is because ketamine is not Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved to treat depression, but studies have come out showing its great promise both inmajor depressive di...
The peer-reviewed research that focuses on ketamine as an intervention for treatment-resistant depression, or as a tool in managing depression, points in a promising direction: ketamine can be an effective and viable treatment option. But what factors contribute to making ketamine an effective tool...
Thus, ketamine may be not only a source of hope for patients and their families but also a powerful weapon in the fight against stigma and for parity in the support for depression prevention, treatment, and research. Was the Discovery of Ketamine’s Antidepressant Serendipitous? Of course. ...
Intravenousketamineis effective for treatingdepressionbut is inferior toelectroconvulsive therapy(ECT), new research suggests. In the first head-to-head trial, ECT was more effective than IV ketamine in hospitalized patients with severe depression, with higher remission rates and a greater reduction in ...
Ketamine infusion has been reported to rapidly relieve depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). It has also been tested in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) anaesthesia and has been suggested to enhance the response to ECT. S-ketamine is less ...
The approval of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression has created a model for a novel class of rapid-acting glutamatergic antidepressants. Recent research into other novel rapid-acting antidepressants - most notably serotonergic psychedelics (SPs) - has also proven promising. Presently, the mechanis...
(A ketamine-derived drug called esketamine is approved for some people as part of treatment-resistant depression in a certified clinical setting.) But doctors have developed a protocol for medically supervised use that research shows may help some people who don’t get relief from other medications...
Sagar Parikh is the head of the Depression Clinical and Research program at the University of Michigan. He also leads Michigan Medicine's ketamine services. While he sees it as an effective treatment for depression, he said there are risks involved. ...
Ketamine also did not reduce opioid prescriptions in the months following treatment, Gulur said. The research is under review for publication. Ketamine targets a brain chemical messenger called glutamate, which is thought to effect both pain and depression. A small amount of ketamine can produce st...
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