Ketamine has been hailed as a fast-acting, effective treatment for major depression. But new research questions whether the ...

Celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and Matthew Perry have been open about using ketamine for their mental health – here's what ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine say they’ve identified how ketamine produces its rapid antidepressant effects — a ...

Some people are turning to an alternative treatment for depression that's typically known in a very different context.About ...

Carly Schwartz wanted a solution for her mental health struggles. She found one, but not where she expected ...

The most common adverse events in the ketamine groups were headache, cardiorespiratory issues, numbness, tingling, ...

A meta-analysis of 26 trials found that IV ketamine rapidly reduced suicidal and depressive symptoms in patients with major ...

Findings from a randomized and blinded clinical trial investigating repeated ketamine infusions for treating depression have revealed no extra benefit for ketamine when added onto standard care for ...

Unlike commonly used oral antidepressants (often known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs), ketamine works through a different mechanism. It targets glutamate pathways in the brain, ...

An emerging treatment for clinical depression has reached an important milestone. This week, the Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s ketamine-based nasal spray, Spravato, as a ...

According to an article in the June 2022 issue of Psychiatry Research, "Replicated clinical trials have demonstrated rapid and robust antidepressant effects with ketamine in treatment-resistant mood ...