Archive for the ‘Ketamine’ Category
Ketamine restores connections between brain cells damaged by chronic stress
Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the August 20 issue of the journal Science, should speed development of a safe and easy-to-administer form of the anti-depressant ketamine, which has already proven remarkably effective in treating severely depressed patients.
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Ketamine Lifts Depression Symptoms in Bipolar Disorder Within an Hour
People with treatment-resistant bipolar disorder experienced relief from symptoms of depression in as little as 40 minutes after an intravenous dose of the anesthetic medication ketamine in a preliminary study; while the patient group was small, this work adds to evidence that compounds in the class to which ketamine belongs have potential as rapid and effective medications for depression, including bipolar depression. The potential for side-effects makes ketamine an impractical drug for standard use, but it provides a way to test this approach for developing novel treatments that act more rapidly than existing ones.
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Has a Positive Influence on the Treatment of Heroin Addiction
It sounds strange that a drug addiction could be successfully combated using another recreational drug, but it appears that certain psychedelic drugs can have a positive influence when combined with psychotherapy. Although much of this research has been conducted before the 1970s and has typically focused on the use of LSD, recently psychiatrists from the St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University have tested the use of the drug ketamine.
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Ketamine Impairs Working Memory And Memory Encoding
According to research published in Experimental and Clinical Psychology, the drug ketamine impairs certain memory processes, but not others.
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy An Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction
Combining the psychedelic anesthetic ketamine with existentially oriented psychotherapy appears to be an effective treatment for heroin addiction, according to a study published in The Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
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Longitudinal Study of the Negative Cognitive Effects of Ketamine Use
Chronic use of ketamine can lead to cognitive impairments, according to a study published in the journal Addiction.
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