Posts Tagged "ketamine psychiatry"

Everything You Need to Know When Referring Patients to Ketamine Therapy Clinics

Psychiatrictimes.com Article: Everything You Need to Know When Referring Patients to Ketamine Therapy Clinics May 9, 2023 Jason Thompson Ketamine is relatively new to the average American. What can you share with them as a mental health clinician? Ketamine-assisted therapy...
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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 a class of neurotransmitters believed to play a…

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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 research trials for assessing the severity of depression and…

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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 providing ketamine as an off-label therapy on a case-by-case…

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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. Sanjay Gupta sharing the story of Alan Ferguson.  Mr….

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