Depression remains a critical challenge in mental health, with traditional treatments often falling short for many individuals. The quest for more effective therapies is driven by the high rates of patients who do not respond to existing antidepressants, which can take weeks to show effects and often come with significant side effects. This gap highlights …
A new study conducted by researchers at Massachusetts General Brigham found ketamine to be a comparable and safer option to ECT for cases of severe treatment-resistant depression. For decades, ECT has been considered the “gold standard” for severe depression treatment, due to its high efficacy rates. Most antidepressants and other depression treatments are only effective …
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders faced globally. If you think you might be struggling with depression, you aren’t alone. According to data from the National Institute of Mental Health, 7.1% of adults in the United States, or approximately 17.3 million people, have experienced a significant depressive episode. Why Ketamine? Despite undergoing …
Ketamine is a drug that has been around in the medical field for over 50 years. Originally used as an anesthetic, it has now been discovered as an effective treatment for depression. There are two main types of ketamine used for depression treatment: intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine. Both ketamine IV infusions and the esketamine …
“In my experience, patients who have high positive regard for the hallucinogenic—mystical and transcendental—experience also tend to have better antidepressant response to ketamine infusion,” Mark Niciu, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa and one of the main authors of a 2015 study that found a correlation between ketamine and dissociation, told Gizmodo. Ketamine’s …
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