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New York Magazine Article: What Happened To Maya? Dr. Ashraf Hanna Treats CRPS Patient

https://nymag.com/  One Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2016, Dr. Sally Smith received a call from the pediatric emergency room at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Smith Read More

New Article: Ketamine therapy could be ‘groundbreaking’ in treating depression, CT researcher says

CTInsider article:Jayesh Kamath said the use of ketamine therapies for treatment of depression could be “groundbreaking.” “We’ve been stuck with antidepressants for decades,” he said. Kamath is a professor of psychiatry at Read More

Ketamine: A Promising Novel Therapy for Anxiety and PTSD

Article from Psychiatry Advisor: Ketamine was originally approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an anesthetic, but is increasingly being used to treat mood disorders, such as treatment-resistant Read More

New article: Ketamine may prevent suicidal ideation

(HealthDay News) — A new clinical trial strengthens the case that ketamine — once famous as a club drug — can rapidly ease suicidal thoughts. Researchers found that among 156 adults Read More

Results of Randomized Trial Confirm Ketamine as Viable Non-opioid Alternative

Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have concluded that intranasal ketamine is as effective as intranasal fentanyl for the relief of pain from acute extremity injury in children. The Read More

Double-Blind Clinical Trial Shows that Dose Matters with Ketamine in Depressed Patients

The results of a new clinical trial with ketamine were published in Nature’s Molecular Psychiatry journal.  Researchers conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial of intravenous ketamine as adjunctive therapy in treatment-resistant Read More

The National Institute of Mental Health Highlights Ketamine for Depression

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) issued a highlight on ketamine for treating depression. The most commonly used antidepressants are largely variations on a theme; they increase the supply within synapses of Read More

IV Ketamine Shows Promise in Clinical Trial with Depressed Teens

Researchers from the University of Minnesota and The Mayo Clinic found that ketamine caused an average decrease of 42% on the Children’s Depression Rating Scale(CDRS)—the most widely used rating scale in Read More

Yale study found no safety issues with long-term ketamine treatment

Researchers at Yale published a new study titled “Acute and Longer-Term Outcomes Using Ketamine as a Clinical Treatment at the Yale Psychiatric Hospital” in Clinical Psychiatry.  In late 2014, Yale began Read More

CNN Reports ‘Ketamine offers lifeline for suicidal thoughts’

CNN featured a segment on the use of ketamine for treating suicidal ideation–a novel, off-label use for ketamine that is currently being explored in human clinical trials.  The segment featured Dr. Read More

Ketamine alone beats methadone and methadone/ketamine combo for neuropathic pain

Neuropathic pain is notoriously difficult to treat.  Patients are often treated as regular chronic pain patients and many resort to opioids to manage extreme levels of pain. Neuropathic pain can Read More

First study shows ketamine is safe and effective for depression in elderly patients

Australian researchers completed the world’s first randomized control trial (RCT), assessing the efficacy and safety of ketamine as a treatment for depression in elderly patients. In this double-blind, controlled, multiple-crossover study Read More

IV Ketamine “most important breakthrough in antidepressant treatment in decades”

It’s been more than two years now since the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health wrote about the use of intravenous ketamine for the treatment of mental Read More

Ketamine is a new, faster option for treating PTSD

PTSD Treatment – Ketamine is a novel treatment for several psychiatric disorders including: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Depression, Postpartum Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.  It Read More

New study confirms IV ketamine is efficacious for treatment refractory headache

Good news for patients suffering from Chronic Migraine or new daily persistent headache.  A retrospective review of 77 patients who underwent administration of intravenous, subanesthetic ketamine was conducted by investigators Read More

Evidence that ketamine is efficacious for CRPS continues to grow

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is an extremely painful neuropathic pain condition that is notoriously hard to treat. At present, there are no FDA-approved medications that are indicated for treating Read More

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