Ketamine was first used as an anesthetic and is mainly used for the same purpose today. However, it’s also used to treat severe depression. When used as advised by a physician, ketamine infusion therapy can be used to treat mood disorders, especially treatment-resistant depression. Where other treatments may have failed, ketamine can provide relief. Ketamine…
As ketamine therapy becomes more and more popular as an effective way of treating conditions like depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), many are wondering whether ketamine therapy could be right for them. Ketamine therapy works by stimulating a different part of the brain, allowing patients to relax and escape stressors. Although originally used as…
Expected Grand Opening – July 6th Principium Psychiatry now offers psychiatry services in Lower Manhattan near Wall Street. Located in the historic Standard Oil Building, our new office at 26 Broadway offers the same cutting-edge services as our offices on 57th Street. With locations in Upper and Lower Manhattan, we hope to make innovative psychiatric…
Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits: A Theory on How Ketamine Works for Depression – Although it is now well documented that ketamine has the ability to rapidly and effectively relieve the symptoms of depression that has failed to respond to traditional antidepressants, no one is sure exactly how it does so. There has been research done…
Ketamine NYC Single vs. Repeated Infusions of Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression It has been well studied that ketamine has rapid and powerful antidepressant effects for people in whom traditional antidepressants haven’t worked. However, most studies’ protocols only include effects after a single infusion, not multiple infusions with maintenance dosage. The few studies that have looked…