Innovative Psychiatry
Initial research finds fast, dramatic benefits for a vulnerable population By Jack Turban on July 18, 2017 Fourteen-year-old Nicole, whose name I changed for her privacy, told her mother every day for years that she wanted to end her own life. Between suicide attempts were more psychiatric hospital visits than she or her mother could count. She […]
MAY 02, 2017 Kenneth Bender A new consensus statement reviews preliminary evidence that the dissociative anesthetic ketamine (Ketalar, JHP Pharmaceuticals) can evoke “rapid and robust” antidepressant effects in patients with mood and anxiety disorders who were previously resistant to treatment, and offers considerations to facilitate appropriate patient selection and safe medication administration. The consensus statement […]
Life-Changing Email Wonder what it’s like to have a changed life from IV ketamine treatment…? Imagine opening an email that could change your life. Let’s say you’re an IT architect, or a chef, a kindergarten teacher, or a construction worker. And let’s say something happened … something terrible, terrifying, and painful. You might have caught […]
The Range of Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorder is a “spectrum” illness with episodes that come in a range of forms (depression, mania, hypomania, mixed episodes, dysphoric hypomania) … cycles that can turn on a dime (episodic, rapid, ultradian) … and severity that ranges up one side and down another. Wait a minute. What? The episodes […]
Ketamine Makes Time Magazine! Jun 21, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. For decades, scientists have searched for a new type of antidepressant, one that works differently from the 20-plus drugs already on the market. Finding a new option is crucial, since a third of people don’t respond to available depression treatments. They […]
When Depression Doesn’t Get Better When you’re sick of one more trial. One more dose increase. A new augmentation agent. Another cross taper…reducing dosage on one drug while increasing it with another… When you’re sick of just feeling so sick and tired and miserable. When you can’t stand the thought of gaining more weight. What […]
Another way IV Ketamine SMASHES depression Sometimes news is so hot it sizzles. It lures you away from whatever you’re into. It captivates you. And then — just face it — you think to yourself, with admiration, OMG. You say to yourself … whoever came up with that is brilliant. They nailed it. Well, Mark Rasenik […]
Just because it feels natural…doesn’t mean it’s good for you Macie is a 32 year-old administrative assistant who feels growing tension when she leaves the house. She opens and closes the door, locks it then unlocks it, and opens and closes it again to be sure it’s latched. Then locks it… and unlocks it. It doesn’t […]
Ketamine is an illicit drug known as “Special K”, but it could have some legit antidepressant effects. By Rachel Jacoby Zoldan | May 16, 2017 Depression is more common than you might think. It affects more than 15 million Americans, and the World Health Organization estimates that number grows to 300 million when you expand […]
Hope and Fast Treatment for the Severely Depressed. For one-third of U.S. patients with depression, standard medications aren’t enough. With nearly 43,000 suicides a year, the need for effective treatment looms large. In 2013, ketamine, a drug commonly used for anesthesia, was studied for its ability to inhibit nerve cells’ N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. Within 24 […]