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ketamine
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Treatments
May 31, 2024
Intramuscular versus Intravenous Ketamine for the Management of Treatment-Resistant Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Cristina Albott of the University of Minnesota Medical School reported relatively similar efficacy of intramuscular versus intravenous ketamine for the management of treatment-resistant depression and suicidal ideation in ...
Treatments
December 21, 2023
New Data on Extending the Effects of IV Ketamine: Implications for countering the effects of stigma.
John Krystal of Yale U. in an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci. (2023) gave new information about the anatomical and physiological effects of ketamine and about how to extend its effects. Ketamine in a...
Treatments
July 5, 2023
Intravenous Arketamine As Adjunctive Treatment for Bipolar Depression
Highlights from Posters Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Meeting, April 27-29, 2023 in San Diego -- I.D. Bandeira of Stanford University reported on the feasibility and safety of the (R)-enantiomer of keta...
Treatments
July 3, 2023
“Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Depression”
Roger McIntyre gave a talk on the “Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Depression” at the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference in Chicago, June 22-25, 2023 -- He pointed out that, contrary to the many approved age...
Biology
July 1, 2023
Higher Brain Temperature in Youth Bipolar Disorder Using a Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach
Highlights from Posters Presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Meeting, April 27-29, 2023 in San Diego -- Ben Goldstein of the University of Toronto reported that “Brain temperature was significantly higher in B...
Treatments
September 11, 2018
Repeated Ketamine Reduces PTSD and Depression in the Short Term
In a 2018 open study by C. Sophia Albott and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a simultaneous diagnosis of major depression were treated with six infu...