Innovative Psychiatry
New Advances in Ketamine Treatment 2018 has been a good year. A very good year. In this fall season of harvest and bounty which surrounds us outdoors, we find ourselves as ketamine physicians with wonderful gifts to work with: in our world of neuroscience and psychiatry, the soil is rich, the seeds have been planted, […]
Walk into Kalypso Wellness Centers in San Antonio, Texas, and you might be treated with one of five “proprietary blends” of ketamine. They’re not cheap — $495 per infusion — and not covered by insurance, but the company offers a “monthly” membership program to cut costs and advertises discounts for members of the military and first responders. Kalypso […]
That Floating Sensation May Predict Ketamine’s Healing At Work Know anyone who’s depressed? I don’t mean someone feeling blue or disappointed, but really depressed. The hard-to- function type of depression. The hard-to-think-hard-to-get-out-of bed kind of depression. Where everything looks dark and hopeless, and you doubt yourself and your value…and it continues and gets worse for […]
Treatment for Psychiatric Mood Disorders Has Been Quietly Waiting To Do Its Magic for 50 Years He was 48, in the midst of a booming career, and like some others who demonstrate that special kind of genius, he had periods when depression came over him unexpectedly…and made it extremely difficult to function. Because of his […]
When Your Loved One Needs Treatment – The Stigma of Old Wives’ Tales Can Cause Crisis… or Tragedy… A mother’s heart is broken when she finds her 19 year old son dead in his car…apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning. She knew he’d struggled for years, saying things like he wished he was dead…or about how […]
Ketamine Can Eradicate Severe Depression Do you know anyone who’s severely depressed? I want you to meet Marti. If you’ve never experienced severe depression yourself, learning about Marti’s journey may give you a glimpse into what it’s like. And if you have…well…I hope Marti’s story helps you feel less alone…and helps you find hope for your future, […]
Aug. 21, 2018 — Ketamine, a widely used anesthetic that’s also an illicit party drug, has taken on a new role in recent years: treating severe depression in people who have not responded to standard treatment. Researchers have called it the most exciting breakthrough in the field of depression research in the past half-century. One form of the drug, being […]
Ketamine Treatment Shows It’s Effectiveness with Treatment-Resistant Adolescent Depression For generations, teenagers have struggled with depression, and treatment has been only moderately effective. We need to treat adolescent depression urgently. Failed grades, lost schooling due to poor attendance, interrupted social development, broken dreams… Pressures of Achievements A young woman who had excelled in high school, […]
Average scores on the Children’s Depression Rating Scale dropped by 42.5% following low-dose IV ketamine infusions among 13 teenagers with treatment-resistant depression, findings published in Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology showed. “Adult [treatment-resistant depression] research has begun to explore repeated administrations of ketamine, which may have promise for greater effectiveness and longer remission periods than single […]
Smash Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders with Rapid-Acting Antidepressants: Like Ketamine Treatment We’ve talked before about the line to the throne where ketamine treatment now reigns. Formulators in a lab were seeking to create a new anesthesia, and they thought they’d found one. They called it Sernyl—but the unpredictable side effects, hallucinations, and sometimes violent behavior, drove […]