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Is ketamine a treatment for depression? What are the risks? Learn about the uses, benefits, and side effects of ketamine.
Ketamine infusion therapy is a promising ketamine treatment that helps mental health conditions including treatment-resistant depression and anxiety disorders. Ketamine, originally developed as anesthesia, was first discovered to work similarly to antidepressants as early as 1975.
IV-infused ketamine is an FDA-approved anesthetic for surgical and medical procedures. In recent years, ketamine has increasingly been used as an antidepressant to treat TRD — considered off-label use. Ketamine delivered in low doses can provide rapid relief of TRD lasting for days to weeks.
Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist, meaning it blocks the N-methyl-D-aspartate neurotransmitter in the brain. It was developed in the 1960s and used as a battlefield anesthetic in the Vietnam War, as well as clinically in health care settings.
Ketamine offers a new, fast-acting approach to relieving treatment-resistant depression. Learn the research-backed benefits and how to try it.
Ketamine infusion therapy is especially helpful in treating major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The clinical results are incredibly impressive: Up to a 70% success rate for treating depression. Rapid improvement often occurs after the first or second infusion.
Explore the growing popularity of ketamine therapy for mental health treatment. Learn about its history, benefits, potential risks, legal aspects, costs involved, and what to expect during...
Ketamine infusion therapy involves the administration of a single infusion or a series of infusions for the management of psychiatric disorders like major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, acute suicidality.
Ketamine has been used for decades as an anesthetic, and in 2019 an inhaled version of it was approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression. But it is generally prescribed only when other treatments have not been effective.
Two main types of ketamine are used to treat major depression that hasn't responded to two or more medications (treatment-resistant depression). Racemic ketamine, which is most often given as an infusion into the bloodstream.