Saturday, April 5, 2014

All over the News

Ketamine Can Treat Severe Depression
The first UK study of the use of ketamine intravenous infusions in people with treatment-resistant depression has been carried out in an NHS clinic by researchers at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford.
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The researchers confirmed that ketamine has a rapid antidepressant effect in some patients with severe depression who have not responded to other treatments. These are patients suffering from severe depression which may have lasted years despite multiple antidepressants and talking therapies. Although many patients relapsed within a day or two, 29% had benefit which lasted at least three weeks and 15% took over two months to relapse.
Yes, well ketamine has a couple interesting effects-
It's antibacterial.
And it also seems to lower insulin production.

Maybe if they understood that, and targeted those problems, those patients wouldn't relapse.