https://youtu.be/qKkYHgVS2CA Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got into this field of medicine. Well, I am a practicing emergency room physician — been doing that for about the last 10 years — and through there, I've done a lot of work treating people in the emergency room with …
Ketamine Therapy
Ketamine infusion therapy for depression, anxiety, and PTSD
https://player.vimeo.com/video/259704004Depression can take over a person’s life, and there’s an estimated 14 million Americans who struggle with this debilitating condition every day.Most of these people continue to suffer because their pain from depression is overwhelming, and it can be …
CNN: “Ketamine offers lifeline for people with severe depression, suicidal thoughts”
In this CNN story, Ben Tinker and Dr. Sanjay Gupta explore the use of ketamine therapy for severe, treatment resistant depression and suicidal ideation:Kane explained that ketamine works in depressed patients by growing synapses in areas of the brain that have atrophied, namely the hippocampus …
Newsweek: Ketamine restores ability to experience pleasure to depressed patients within minutes
One of the less talked about, but more insidious effects of depression is anhedonia: the inability to feel pleasure. In addition to low overall mood, patients with depression no longer find joy in the activities that used to bring them fulfillment. Anhedonia is also one of the more difficult aspects …
TIME: Ketamine for Depression: The Most Important Advance in Field in 50 Years?
Maia Szalavitz at TIME writes of ketamine infusion therapy for depression: A single dose of ketamine produces relief of depression that has been shown in studies to last for up to 10 days; it also appears to reduce symptoms of bipolar disorder and suicidal thoughts. Now, a new research review …
