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Dennis S. Charney is an American biological psychiatrist and researcher, with expertise in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. [1] He is the author of Neurobiology of Mental Illness, The Physician's Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorders and Molecular Biology for the Clinician, as well as the author of over 600 original papers and chapters.
He is a graduate of Columbia University’s medical school, and obtained psychiatry residency training within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and child-adolescent psychiatry fellowship ...
It is a member of the Sinai Health system and affiliated with the University of Toronto. In October 2021, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare was renamed Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital in recognition of a $36 million gift from Jay S. Hennick and Barbara Hennick, longtime leaders and supporters of Sinai Health. Jay Hennick was the Chair of the Board of ...
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is the use of prescribed doses of ketamine as an adjunct to psychotherapy sessions. KAP shows significant potential in treating mental disorders such as treatment-resistant depression (TRD), anxiety, obsessive–compulsive disorders (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), and other conditions. [1]
Ketamine was originally developed in the 1960s as an anesthetic — an application for which it is still used today. (It is on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines .)
Current ketamine treatment is in the form of a nasal spray (in the form of esketamine) or injection. Both require that the patient stays in the clinic to be monitored for around 2 hours ...
Mount Sinai Hospital has existed in Toronto since 1923 under various names; it has occupied its present site on University Avenue since 1953. In the fiscal year ending March 2013, Mount Sinai Hospital cared for 128,714 inpatients days, delivered almost 7,000 babies and performed almost 20,000 surgeries.
Celebrities like Matthew Perry, Chrissy Teigen and others have been open about using ketamine infusion therapy to help treat mental health conditions. According to the United States Drug ...