Ketamine in the News

Ketamine in the News

“Research On Psychadelics & Mental Health Shows There’s Alot Of Potential” 

by Jay Polish, January 29, 2020, Bustle

“The current mental health crisis and the coming Ketamine revolution”

by Lascap, June 16, 2016, Pascal’s Pensees

“Ketamine Encourages Nerve Remodeling”

by Jef Akst, October 16, 2012, The Scientist

“Ketamine Infusions” 

by International Research Foundation

From depression to dementia, inflammation is medicine’s new frontier

The Guardian, January 19, 2020

No Lasting Side Effects With Single Infusion of Low-Dose Ketamine

Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Learning Network, December 2, 2019

Rapid Anti-Depressant Relief by Ketamine: Exploring A Complex Mechanism of Action

Current Psychopharmacology, 2019, 8, 1-16

 

5 Alternative Treatments For Depression

Women Fitness Magazine, November 4, 2019

 

Ketamine Could be the Key to Reducing America’s Suicide Rate 

by Cynthia Koons and Robert Lengreth, February 5, 2019, Bloomberg Business

Is ketamine the best hope for curing major depression?

by Caroline Winter, August 19, 2018, Bloomberg Business

Ketamine Shows Promise for Treatment for Adolescents with Depression

by Aristos Georgia, August 12, 2018, Newsweek

Ketamine offers lifeline for people with severe depression, suicidal thoughts

by Ben Tinker and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, August 4, 2018, CNN

From Chaos To Calm: A Life Changed By Ketamine

Jon Hamilton, June 4, 2018, NPR

Ketamine Gaining Popularity for the Severely Depressed

February 3, 2018, CBS News

How Ketamine is Treating Mental Illness

by Sarah Jacoby, March 21, 2015, Refinery 29

“Could ketamine become the next great depression drug?”

by Timothy Bella, February 12, 2015, Al Jazeera America

Ketamine as a promising prototype for a new generation of rapid-acting antidepressants

Annals Of The New York Academy of Sciences 2015; Issue – Translational Neuroscience in Psychiatry:1-12

“Special K, a Hallucinogen, Raises Hopes and Concerns as a Treatment for Depression”

by Andrew Pollack, December 9, 2014

“Ketamine Restores Ability to Experience Pleasure in Depressed Patients Within Minutes”

by Douglas Main, October 21, 2014, Newsweek

“Let There Be Light”

by Kerri Reeves, Fall 2014, Real Women

“Ketamine Could Treat Depression – Illegal Drugs Do Have Their Uses”

by Sue Blackmore, April 4, 2014, The Guardian

“Ketamine ‘Exciting’ Depression Therapy”

by James Gallagher, April 2, 2014, The BBC

“Antidepressant Ketamine May Be More Effective Than Electroconvulsive Therapy”

by Dr. Keith Ablow, February 24, 2014, Fox News

Effects of ketamine on explicit and implicit suicidal cognition: A randomized controlled trial in treatment resistant depression

Depression Anxiety 2014;31(4):335-343

Antidepressant effects of ketamine: mechanisms underlying fast-acting novel antidepressants

Frontiers in Pharmacology December 2013; Vol 4:161

“Do No Harm, Unless Doing No Harm Hurts”

by Steven P. Levine, September 9, 2013, HCP Live

“A Dry Pipeline for Psychiatric Drugs”

by Richard A. Friedman, M.D., August 19, 2013, The New York Times

“Ketamine Effective At Treating Depression”

by Joseph Nordqvist, June 4 2013, Medical News Today

“Ketamine Works in OCD, Stubborn Depression”

by SkepticalScalpel, May 21, 2013, Physicians Weekly

“Maintenance Ketamine Treatment Produces Long-term Recovery from Depression”

by Primary Psychiatry, May 21, 2013, Primary Psychiatry

“Ketamine may be quick, effective treatment for untreatable depression”

by Michelle Castillo, May 20, 2013, CBS News

“Ketamine shows significant therapeutic benefit in people with treatment-resistant depression”

by ScienceDaily, May 18, 2013, ScienceDaily.

“Is Ketamine The Next Big Depression Drug?”

by Simone Grimm, Milan Scheidegger , May 1, 2013, Scientific American

“Ketamine May Help Treat Severe Depression, Reduce Suicidal Urges, UAB Researchers Say”

March 27, 2013, Medical News

“NIH Trial Drug Rapidly Eased Depression”

by Kansas City Infozine, December 13, 2012

“Ketamine From Drug Abuse to Anti-Depressant”

by The Brain Bank North West, December 10, 2012

“The Biggest Breakthrough in Depression Research in 50 Years’ is…Ketamine?”

by Lindsay Abrams, October 9, 2012, The Atlantic

“Ketamine for Depression: The Most Important Advance in Field in 50 Years?”

by Maia Szalavitz, October 5, 2012, TIME

“Synaptic Dysfunction in Depression: Potential Therapeutic Targets”

by Ronalds S. Dunam, George K. Aghajanian, October 5, 2012, Science Magazine.

“Ketamine Relieves Depression by Restoring Brain Connections”

by John Hamilton, October 4, 2012, All Things Considered, NPR

“Looking Back at Ketamine Delivers New Results in Treatment-Resistant Depression”

by Steven P. Levine, July 8, 2013, HCP Live

“Ketamine Cures 50% of People with Treatment-resistant Depression”

by Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk

“Ketamine-Induced Optimism New Hope for the Development of Rapid Acting Antidepressants”

by Gerard Sanacora, M.D., PhD, July 13, 2012 Psychiatric Times

“Ketamine-Induced Optimism New Hope for the Development of Rapid Acting Antidepressants”

by Gerard Sanacora, M.D., PhD, July 13, 2012 Psychiatric Times

Safety and Efficacy or Repeated-Dose Intravenous Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Psychiatry 2010; 67: 139-145

“Why Ketamine Helps Fight Depression”

by Emily Singer, August 7, 2007, MIT Technology Review

“Drug ‘Treats Depression in Hours’”

August 7, 2006, The BBC

“Ketamine May Give ‘Almost Instantaneous’ Relief for Severe Depression”

by MedPage Today

“Yale Scientists Explain how Ketamine Vanquishes Depression within Hours”

by Yale News

“Depressed? Your doctor might soon prescribe ketamine”

by The Guardian

“Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After A Single Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder”

by J Clin Psychiatry

“Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After A Single Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder”

by J Clin Psychiatry

“Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After A Single Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder”

by J Clin Psychiatry

“Looking Back at Ketamine Delivers New Results in Treatment-Resistant Depression”

by Steven P. Levine, July 8, 2013, HCP Live

“Ketamine Cures 50% of People with Treatment-resistant Depression”

by Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk

“Ketamine-Induced Optimism New Hope for the Development of Rapid Acting Antidepressants”

by Gerard Sanacora, M.D., PhD, July 13, 2012 Psychiatric Times

“Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After A Single Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder”

by J Clin Psychiatry

“Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After A Single Infusion of an NMDA Antagonist in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder”

by J Clin Psychiatry

“Serial Ketamine Infusions More Effective for Depression?”

by Deborah Brauser

“Outpatient intravenous ketamine for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome: a double-blind placebo controlled study.”

by PubMed US National Library of MedicineNational Institutes of Health, December 15, 2009

“Low Doses Of A Common Intravenous Anesthetic May Relieve Debilitating Pain Syndrome”

by American RSD Hope

“Subanesthetic ketamine infusions for the treatment of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a longitudinal study”

by BMC Pediatrics, March 26, 2015

Functional Reorganization of the Default Mode Network across Chronic Pain Conditions

PLOS One, Sept 2014; Volume 9; Issue 9

Shape shifting pain: chronification of back pain shifts brain representation from nociceptive to emotional circuits

Brain 2013: 136; 2751-2768

A Dynamic Network Perspective of Chronic Pain

Neuroscience Letters June 2012;520(2): 197-203

Functional and structural imaging of pain-induced neuroplasticity

Current Opinions in Anesthesiology 2011; 24: 515-528

“Subanesthetic ketamine infusion therapy: a retrospective analysis of a novel therapeutic approach to complex regional pain syndrome.”

by PubMed US National Library of MedicineNational Institutes of Health, September 5, 2004

Subanesthetic Ketamine Infusion Therapy: A Retrospective Analysis of a Novel Therapeutic Approach to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Pain Medicine 2004; Volume 5 (3): 263-275 

“A Remarkable Breakthrough for the Treatment of Depression and Pain, Part 1”

by Dr. Robert Hoffman of Intelligent Medicine

“Breakthrough in Pain, Depression and PTSD Dr Steven L Mandel”

by Minda Wilson

From Dr. Arora, Our Board-Certified Physician

1. Chien GC., Arora SS, Bautista, A. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Promote Return to Work. In: Abd-Elsayed A. Pain: A Review Guide. New York NY: 2018 

 

2. Arora SS, Chien GC. Chronic Urogenital Pain: Psychological Principles in Clinical Assessment, Explanation, and Treatment. In: Abd-Elsayed A. Pain: A Review Guide. New York NY: 2018 

 

3. Arora SS, Sulindro, AD, Chien GC. (2017). Ketamine as a Vehicle for Change in Chronic Pain and Co-Morbid Addiction. ASIPP: IPM Reports. Dec. 2017.

 

4. Candido KD, Arora SS, Galang E, Chien GC. Tendon Sheath, Insertion, and Bursa Injections. In: Manchikanti L, Kaye AD, Falco FJE, Hirsch JA. Essentials of Interventional Techniques in Managing Chronic Pain. Chicago, IL: Nov. 2017.

 

5. Arora SS, Galang E, Chien GC. Central Pain Syndromes. In: Ramamurthy S, Alanmanou E, Rogers JN. Decision Making in Pain Management3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: 25 Sept. 2017.

 

6. Galang E, Arora SS Chien GC. Ankylosing Spondylitis. In: Ramamurthy S, Alanmanou E, Rogers JN. Decision Making in Pain Management, 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: 25 Sept. 2017.

 

7. Arora SS. Ketamine as a Bridging Agent in Opioid Maintenance Therapy. AAAP Newsletter. Aug. 2017.

 

8. Arora SS, Mehta, S, Chien GC, Covington, E. Fibromyalgia: Review and Updates in Management. Scientific American: Pain Management. Nov. 2016. 

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