by University of Pittsburgh Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Simple computer-based neurocognitive training—using positive words and pictures designed to boost self-worth—prolongs the antidepressant effects of ketamine in people with treatment-resistant depression, University of Pittsburgh researchers report today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Results of a double-blind, randomized clinical trial conducted in Pittsburgh suggest that low-cost, automated...
by The Mount Sinai Hospital Dr. Alexander Kolevzon, Clinical Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai with trial participant. Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Results of a small, but unique research study, led by researchers from the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai and published...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress 3D model of Ketamine. Credit: Wikipedia A team of researchers at the University of Geneva has found that ketamine is unlikely to be addictive to people who use it for extended periods of time. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their study of the impact of...
by Northwestern University 3-D model of Ketamine. Credit: Wikipedia Ketamine is the speedster of antidepressants, working within hours compared to more common antidepressants that can take several weeks. But ketamine can only be given for a limited amount of time because of its many side effects. Now, a new Northwestern Medicine study identifies for the...
by University of British Columbia 3-D model of Ketamine. Credit: Wikipedia First manufactured more than 50 years ago, ketamine is a fast-acting dissociative anesthetic often used in veterinary and emergency medicine. Ketamine also has a history of being an illicit party drug. Now, ketamine is getting a closer look. Researchers from UBC Okanagan and the...
Megan Brooks January 25, 2022 Three weekly infusions of the dissociative anesthetic ketamine coupled with mindfulness-based relapse prevention therapy may help adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD) maintain abstinence, new research suggests. Preliminary results from a phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial show ketamine was well tolerated and, compared with placebo, associated with more days of...
by University of Exeter Credit: CC0 Public Domain People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The Ketamine for reduction of Alcohol Relapse (KARE) trial was led by the University of Exeter and...
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET The discovery that the anaesthetic ketamine can help people with severe depression has raised hopes of finding new treatment options for the disease. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now identified novel mechanistic insights on how the drug exerts its antidepressant effect. The findings have been published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry....
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM MAYWOOD, IL – A recent Loyola Medicine study found that reducing the standard dose of IV-administered ketamine in half is as effective as the larger, standard dose in reducing pain in adults. Ketamine is known to provide pain relief comparable to opioid medications, which are highly addictive. In the recent study,...
By Nick Lavars February 07, 2021 A new study has found that suicidal thoughts may be significantly reduced through regular oral doses of ketamineAndreyPopov/DepositphotosVIEW 1 IMAGES The notion of using ketamine as an anti-depressant is gathering steam on the back of enlightening research that has shown us how it can suppress the brain’s “anti-reward” center, mend broken...
