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Ask The Doctor Webinar On Ketamine For Depression - Replay Available Now ! May 15th, 2017

Spring, 2017 NAMI Ask The Doctor: “Ketamine for Depression: Progress and Pitfalls” with Dr. Cristina Cusin, M.D. Dr. Cusin addresses Ketamine,* an anesthetic drug that in very small doses has been shown to relieve symptoms of depression within hours—even in patients who did not improve with other treatments. In this...

Ketamine For Severe Depression: 'How Do You Not Offer This Drug To People?' Mar 20th, 2017

chuwy/Getty Images Gerard Sanacora, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has treated hundreds of severely depressed patients with low doses of ketamine, an anesthetic and popular club drug that isn't approved for depression. This sort of "off-label" prescribing is legal. But Sanacora says other doctors sometimes ask him, "How can you...

Population scale data reveals the antidepressant effects of ketamine Mar 5th, 2007

Population scale data reveals the antidepressant effects of ketamine and other therapeutics approved for non-psychiatric indications Abstract Current therapeutic approaches to depression fail for millions of patients due to lag in clinical response and non-adherence. Here we provide new support for the antidepressant effect of an anesthetic drug, ketamine,...