ECT vs. Ketamine: The Differences

Examining the research between ketamine and ECT.

Have you tried at least two depression treatments without success? Your doctor may suggest ECT. However, after researching it, you may have concerns about the safety of the procedure and the side effects that may be long-lasting. Treatment-resistant depression can be very frustrating, but there is another treatment out there that may be the solution …

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Depression and Ketamine – How Ketamine Helps with Depression

Ketamine and Depression: How Ketamine Helps with Depression Do you feel like you may be falling into a depression? Figures released by the National Institute of Mental Health indicate that 7.1% of all adults in the United States, which is an estimated 17.3 million, have experienced at least one significant depressive episode. Why is Ketamine …

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Amidst An Opioid Crisis, Ketamine Has the Potential To Save Lives

Amidst An Opioid Crisis, Ketamine Has the Potential To Save Lives Opioid abuse which began as pain treatment has led to a national epidemic. Ketamine, essentially non-addictive when administered in a medical setting, may be able to stem the tide, by treating chronic and other types of pain in place of highly addictive opioids. Opioid …

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More Than Just a Trip: Why Does Ketamine Work for Depression When Nothing Else Does?

“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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A Single Dose Of Ketamine Might Help Heavy Drinkers, Study Finds

The research team recruited 90 people who drank much more than average — an average of about four to five pints of beer a day, or about five times the U.K.’s recommended maximum — but had not previously been diagnosed with alcoholism and were not receiving treatment. On the first day of the experiment, participants …

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Ketamine research reports 75% success rate in treatment of long-term depression

Researchers looking into the use of ketamine say they have had a 75 per cent success rate in using it to treat long-term depression. “The results are startling,” says Melbourne University neuroscientist Associate Professor Graham Barrett, who has been studying depression for 30 years. “They’re not 100 per cent, there are people who don’t respond …

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Subanesthetic ketamine infusions for the treatment of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a longitudinal study

Background Chronic pain is common in children and adolescents and is often associated with severe functional disability and mood disorders. The pharmacological treatment of chronic pain in children and adolescents can be challenging, ineffective, and is mostly based on expert opinions and consensus. Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, has been used as an adjuvant for …

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Ketamine for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Trial

‘- Jerome H Taylor, Angeli Landeros-Weisenberger, Catherine Coughlin, Jilian Mulqueen, Jessica A Johnson, Daniel Gabriel, Margot O Reed, Ewgeni Jakubovski and Michael H Bloch Abstract Many patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) experience inadequate symptom relief from available treatments. Ketamine is a potent N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist with a potentially novel mechanism of action for the …

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CRPS / RSD and Ketamine: A new treatment for CRPS

Receiving a CRPS diagnosis may leave you with many questions. If you’re living with the associated chronic pain, the frustration can be overwhelming. Read on to learn how ketamine is a new treatment for CRPS. Many people living with CRPS or RSD have lost jobs, relationships, and even friends, due to this debilitating condition. This …

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Treating Fibromyalgia Pain with Ketamine

Are you suffering from fibromyalgia pain and looking for relief? Ketamine treatment could be your answer. When given in low doses, in a clinical environment, ketamine improves pain control for fibromyalgia patients, especially for those whose pain is not sufficiently controlled using other pain medications. Patients who receive a diagnosis for fibromyalgia are experiencing a …

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