IN THE MEDIA
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New Hope for Depression: Time Magazine, by Mandy Oaklander, July 27 2017
Ketamine trips are known to help people disconnect from their bodies and their thoughts, and it worked that way for Reiger. After her first trip, she remembers feeling better than she had for years. “I immediately felt relief … a lightness of the depression kind of lifting,” says Reiger. And it all happened in less than an hour. “It’s been a paradigm shift, that now we can achieve rapid antidepressant effects,” says Dr. Carlos Zarate, chief of the experimental therapeutics and pathophysiology branch at the National Institute of Mental Health and one of the foremost researchers of ketamine. “Now we know there’s something radically different.” |
A rat neuron before (top) and after (bottom) ketamine treatment. The increased number of orange nodes are restored connections in the rat's brain.
Ronald Duman/Yale University
Ketamine Relieves Depression By Restoring Brain Connections: NPR, October 4 2012
Researchers from Yale and the National Institute of Mental Health say ketamine seems to cause a burst of new connections to form between nerve cells in parts of the brain involved in emotion and mood.
...A healthy neuron looks like a tree in spring, he says, with lots of branches and leaves extending toward synaptic connections with other neurons. "What happens in depression is there's a shriveling of these branches and these leaves and It looks like a tree in winter. And a drug like ketamine does make the tree look like one back in spring."
Researchers from Yale and the National Institute of Mental Health say ketamine seems to cause a burst of new connections to form between nerve cells in parts of the brain involved in emotion and mood.
...A healthy neuron looks like a tree in spring, he says, with lots of branches and leaves extending toward synaptic connections with other neurons. "What happens in depression is there's a shriveling of these branches and these leaves and It looks like a tree in winter. And a drug like ketamine does make the tree look like one back in spring."
Ketamine depression treatment 'should be rolled out': BBC News, April 6 2017
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: An Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction: Psy Post, March 27 2010
Depressed? Your doctor might soon prescribe ketamine: The Guardian, March 3 2016
What It’s Like to Have Your Severe Depression Treated With a Hallucinogenic Drug: The Cut, March 9 2016
Use of ketamine for depression shows rapid, long-lasting effects: study: NY Daily News, September 1, 2017
Insomnia, Suicide and the Redemptive Power of Ketamine: Van Winkle's, August 11 2015
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: An Effective Treatment for Heroin Addiction: Psy Post, March 27 2010
Depressed? Your doctor might soon prescribe ketamine: The Guardian, March 3 2016
What It’s Like to Have Your Severe Depression Treated With a Hallucinogenic Drug: The Cut, March 9 2016
Use of ketamine for depression shows rapid, long-lasting effects: study: NY Daily News, September 1, 2017
Insomnia, Suicide and the Redemptive Power of Ketamine: Van Winkle's, August 11 2015
SELECTED RESEARCH
Ketamine Psychotherapy for Heroin Addiction by Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, et al., in Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy (KPT) – Review of the Results of Ten Years of Research by Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, and Alexander Grinenko, MD, PhD, in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
Ketamine-Enhanced Psychotherapy: Preliminary Clinical Observations on its Effects in Treating Death Anxiety by Eli Kolp, MD, et al., in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
"Death-Rebirth" Psychotherapy with Ketamine by Igor Kungurtsev, M. D., Reprinted from the Fall 1991 issue of the Albert Hofmann Foundation bulletin.
Ketamine Psychedelic Therapy (KPT) – Review of the Results of Ten Years of Research by Evgeny Krupitsky, MD, PhD, and Alexander Grinenko, MD, PhD, in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
Ketamine-Enhanced Psychotherapy: Preliminary Clinical Observations on its Effects in Treating Death Anxiety by Eli Kolp, MD, et al., in the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
"Death-Rebirth" Psychotherapy with Ketamine by Igor Kungurtsev, M. D., Reprinted from the Fall 1991 issue of the Albert Hofmann Foundation bulletin.
BOOKS
Ketamine: Dreams and Realities (2004) by Karl Jansen, MD, PhD.
The Ketamine Papers (2016) by Phil Wolfson, M.D. & Glen Hartelius (editors)
Ketamine for Depression (2015) by Dr. Stephen J. Hyde
The Ketamine Papers (2016) by Phil Wolfson, M.D. & Glen Hartelius (editors)
Ketamine for Depression (2015) by Dr. Stephen J. Hyde
VIDEOS
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TBS/CNN featured Eli Kolp's alternative treatment rehabilitation center on the American Frontiers program entitled Psychedelic Revisions.
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Dr. Raquel Bennett from KRIYA Institute explains 3 different ways of working with ketamine to treat depression. She gave this live talk during the ketamine panel at the Psychedelic Science Conference hosted by MAPS in April 2017.
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The Experimental Ketamine Cure for Depression
Source: Vice Media Air Date: March 1, 2017 Featuring: Steven Levine, M.D. |
TED Talk: The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca Brachman shares news of a serendipitous breakthrough treatment that may prevent mental disorders like depression and PTSD from ever developing.
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