Innovative Psychiatry
By Lindsey Tanner | APOctober 31 at 12:14 PM CHICAGO — It was launched decades ago as an anesthetic for animals and people, became a potent battlefield pain reliever in Vietnam and morphed into the trippy club drug Special K. Now the chameleon drug ketamine is finding new life as an unapproved treatment for depression and suicidal behavior. […]
Studies Imply PTSD is a Gateway Condition That Can Lead to Other Critical Illnesses. Ketamine treatment can bring PTSD to remission, and hopefully prevent these other illnesses. Bang! A sudden loud noise breaks the stillness. “What tha…??!! Your companion jumps with a startled exclamation, missing that you’re standing there frozen, pale, and in-one-motion spun around […]
Ketamine Treatment for Mood Disorders is NOT One-Size-Fits-All Have you suffered from severe depression, suicidal thoughts, social anxiety… or PTSD, OCD, bipolar disorder, addiction… and the treatments your doctor prescribed didn’t help? Did you reach out to a doctor who offers ketamine, or a ketamine clinic in your area, and find that it hardly helped? It’s […]
A study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators identifies two subanesthetic dosage levels of the anesthetic drug ketamine that appear to provide significant symptom relief to patients with treatment-resistant depression. In the October 2018 issue of Molecular Psychiatry they describe finding that single intravenous doses of 0.5 mg/kg and 1.0 mg/kg were more effective than an […]
By MEGAN THIELKING @meggophone OCTOBER 11, 2018 As ketamine clinics pop up across the U.S. to offer experimental infusions for depression, anxiety, and a slew of other conditions, training programs to teach providers how to run these businesses have also started to appear. They promise to teach everyone from anesthesiologists to advanced practice nurses the ins and outs of […]
Is It the Hype…? Or Is There Something about Esketamine You Really Want…? Ok, you’ve been wishing for a remedy for your distress with this mood disorder. I get it. Something that will do more than take the edge off, but instead will really help you feel good again. You’ve heard about ketamine treatment, but having to go to […]
PTSD and Sexual Assault Are Pervasive and Unrelenting She froze. Beads of perspiration broke out on her scalp…her eyes flashed wide. Terror gripped her and she prepared to fight off her attacker… She waited. Held her breath. Seconds passed. Then a minute….so she quietly sucked in some air… and slowly — almost imperceptibly— looked into […]
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 […]