Innovative Psychiatry
Anorexia, Ketamine, and the Default Mode Network Do you feel good about what you weigh? Or about how you look? If you hesitated to answer, you’re not alone. If you answered No…or…I’m not sure… again, you’re not alone. Survey Says: Majority Don’t Like the Way They Look Allure, a magazine centered on beauty, surveyed 2,497 […]
If This is What You Picture When You Imagine IV Ketamine Treatment for Depression, Think AGAIN!! And nix that image. Because we’re going to talk about who should provide IV ketamine as treatment for depression. Ketamine treatment is getting more and more attention in the press as a paradigm shifter for effective treatment for psychiatric mood disorders. […]
New Hope for Depression Mandy Oaklander Jul 26, 2017 For more, visit TIME Health. Every week, when Ian Hanley sits down with his therapist, he goes through a list of depression treatments he’s been researching online. The best-known treatments at the top of the list–half a dozen antidepressants and known combinations of those drugs–are all crossed […]
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 […]