Ketamine has been used in the medical field for decades, but is only recently becoming popular for a new reason — as a mental health treatment. Originally used as an anesthetic for soldiers during the Vietnam war in the 1960s, ketamine is still used in many hospitals today to induce anesthesia while preserving airway reflexes …
A new medication is hitting the market and hitting it hard: ketamine. You may have recently seen ads for ketamine pills sent directly to your home; hundreds of companies are popping up offering these services for conditions like depression and anxiety. Wait a minute — isn’t ketamine a horse tranquilizer? When did it become so …
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 …
More and more people struggling with depression are looking to ketamine treatment for relief. This relatively new antidepressant is proving to be astoundingly effective for treatment-resistant depression, having the potential to offer lasting relief and create meaningful change in the brain. Only one form of ketamine is FDA-approved: Spravato, an esketamine nasal spray. Esketamine is a …
Ketamine therapy is becoming an increasingly popular treatment for people with depression who can’t find relief from other medications. The treatment involves receiving low doses of ketamine multiple times a week for 2-3 weeks. It’s often coupled with therapy to help individuals achieve breakthroughs and solidify ketamine’s antidepressant effects. After a successful treatment, people typically …
In light of ketamine’s effectiveness and tolerability in treating major depressive disorder, researchers are looking into the drug’s potential to treat other mental disorders as well, including post-traumatic stress disorder. The main treatment for PTSD is currently trauma-focused psychotherapy. While it is effective for some, it shows significant rates of partial or nonresponse, as well …
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 …
The first-line pharmacological treatment, and only medications approved by the FDA, to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder are serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SRIs. These medications often only provide limited symptom relief, and usually take six to ten weeks to have a meaningful impact. SRIs also typically produce a wide range of unpredictable side effects for the user. …
Ionescu et al. analyzed the effectiveness of a single ketamine infusion in treating depression in patients with anxious bipolar disorder compared to non-anxious bipolar disorder. Approximately 25-50% of patients with bipolar disorder have an anxious subtype, and the role of anxiety in influencing symptoms and challenges of bipolar disorder is becoming increasingly recognized. When it …
“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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