In the meantime, practitioners of this new kind of mental healthcare can use ketamine as their psychedelic agent; and some studies, such as the one Grant participated in, are even government funded. The Ketamine for Reduction of Alcoholic Relapse (Kare) study is a novel attempt to ease the huge burden on the NHS caused by alcohol-related illnesses.
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Orhurhu, Vwaire MD, MPH; Orhurhu, Mariam Salisu MD, MPH; Bhatia, Anuj MD, FRCPC; Cohen, Steven P. MD 13 March 2019 | doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000004185 Abstract BACKGROUND: IV ketamine is widely used to treat patients with chronic pain, yet the long-term impact remains uncertain. We synthesized evidence from randomized control trials to investigate the effectiveness of IV
John H. Krystal, Chadi G. Abdallah, Gerard Sanacora, Dennis S. Charney, Ronald S. Duman Published online: 6 March 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.005 Abstract Ketamine is the first exemplar of a rapid-acting antidepressant with efficacy for treatment-resistant symptoms of mood disorders. Its discovery emerged from a reconceptualization of the biology of depression. Neurobiological insights into ketamine efficacy
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Strong evidence supports the rapid, although temporary, antidepressant effects of a single intravenous ketamine infusion for treatment-resistant major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar depression.
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Magnesium and ketamine have a common mechanism of action in the treatment of depression: an increase in GluN2B (NMDAR subunit) expression is related to the administration of both of the agents, as well as inhibition of phosphorylation of eEF2 (eukaryotic elongation factor 2) in cell culture and increase of the expression of BDNF in the hippocampus.
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Maurizio Fava, Marlene P. Freeman, Martina Flynn, Heidi Judge, Bettina B. Hoeppner, Cristina Cusin, Dawn F. Ionescu, Sanjay J. Mathew, Lee C. Chang, Dan V. Iosifescu, James Murrough, Charles Debattista, Alan F. Schatzberg, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Manish K Jha, Gerard Sanacora, Samuel T. Wilkinson, and George I. Papakostas Published 3 October 2018 | doi: 10.1038/s41380-018-0256-5
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Rick Doblin is the founder and executive director of MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
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Steven P. Cohen, MD; Anuj Bhatia, MBBS, MD; Asokumar Buvanendran, MD; Eric S. Schwenk, MD; Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc; Robert W. Hurley, MD, PhD; Eugene R. Viscusi, MD; Samer Narouze, MD, PhD; Fred N. Davis, MD; Elspeth C. Ritchie, MD, MPH; Timothy R. Lubenow, MD; and William M. Hooten, MD Published 1 July 2018
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