The earliest accounts of depression were recorded in the second millennium BC in ancient Mesopotamia. However, the true nature of depressions eluded many scholars for a great number of years. But as medical science evolved a myriad set of treatments emerged. The treatments of past, from bloodletting, baths, and even local shamans, have all but…
“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…
May 18, 2018 In 2008, use of repetitive TMS for the treatment of major depressive disorder was approved by the FDA. The “standard” MDD protocol involves 36 sessions, treating at the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex daily. What has not been discussed as much is what is known as the “Anxiety Protocol,” which often is used…