Mounting research suggests psychedelics may effectively treat depression and other mental health disorders. Ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin and ayahuasca are hallucinogens that may bring relief to people with depressive or anxious symptoms, even those whose symptoms do not respond to traditional antidepressants. Most of these psychedelics only need to be taken a few times to provide…
If you’re living with depression, you’ve likely noticed an impact on your quality of life. Symptoms such as mood swings, hopelessness and apathy make it challenging to achieve daily tasks and maintain personal connections. For some people, depression makes it hard to get out of bed in the morning, impacting their work, school and social…
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…
Major depression is one of the most commonly occurring mental health issues in the U.S. More than 17 million adults, just over 7% of the U.S. population, experience at least one episode of major depression annually, as of 2017. While many people can get relief from their symptoms and start feeling like their old selves again by…
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…
Depression keeps on being an ailment that isn’t totally comprehended. Current neuroscience has thought of sensible and durable models, which portray melancholy as the insufficiency or decreased movement of the synapses Serotonin, Norepinephrine, and Dopamine in the mind. All FDA-endorsed drugs influence one of or a greater amount of the above synapses. The expertise in…
A recent study from August had originally introduced the idea that ketamine may act like an opioid. This was reinforced by a small study of 7 patients that showed that patients who received naltrexone (a medication that blocks the effects of opioids and is also used to treat alcohol dependence) before their ketamine infusion felt…
“I received ketamine anesthesia during ECT treatment: Will that help treat my depression?” Long before ketamine was used in low doses to treat refractory depression, it was (and still is!) a very a widely used anesthetic agent. The World Health Organization (WHO) even lists ketamine as an “essential medicine,” and among the safest and…