Major depressive disorder

W Marx, BWJH Penninx, M Solmi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by persistent depressed mood, loss of
interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, recurrent thoughts of death, and …

[HTML][HTML] Are “mystical experiences” essential for antidepressant actions of ketamine and the classic psychedelics?

K Hashimoto - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical …, 2024 - Springer
The growing interest in the rapid and sustained antidepressant effects of the dissociative
anesthetic ketamine and classic psychedelics, such as psilocybin, is remarkable. However …

Ketamine and the neurobiology of depression: Toward next-generation rapid-acting antidepressant treatments

JH Krystal, AP Kaye, S Jefferson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Ketamine has emerged as a transformative and mechanistically novel pharmacotherapy for
depression. Its rapid onset of action, efficacy for treatment-resistant symptoms, and …

[HTML][HTML] Non-invasive spinal cord electrical stimulation for arm and hand function in chronic tetraplegia: a safety and efficacy trial

C Moritz, EC Field-Fote, C Tefertiller, I van Nes… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to permanent impairment of arm and hand functions.
Here we conducted a prospective, single-arm, multicenter, open-label, non-significant risk …

Clinical outcomes of magnetic seizure therapy vs electroconvulsive therapy for major depressive episode: a randomized clinical trial

ZD Deng, B Luber, SM McClintock, RD Weiner… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly effective and rapid in treating
depression, but it carries a risk of significant cognitive adverse effects. Magnetic seizure …

Ketamine for Depression—Knowns, Unknowns, Possibilities, Barriers, and Opportunities

C Andrade - JAMA psychiatry, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Many drugs used in medicine have on-and off-label indications that span different medical
disciplines. Ketamine now has evidence of efficacy for emergency …

[HTML][HTML] EEG-vigilance regulation is associated with and predicts ketamine response in major depressive disorder

CT Ip, M de Bardeci, G Kronenberg, LH Pinborg… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Ketamine offers promising new therapeutic options for difficult-to-treat depression. The
efficacy of treatment response, including ketamine, has been intricately linked to EEG …

Choosing Between Ketamine and Electroconvulsive Therapy for Outpatients With Treatment-Resistant Depression—Advantage Ketamine?

SJ Mathew, MK Jha, A Anand - JAMA psychiatry, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
This Viewpoint examines key issues stemming from severalrecentreportsofelectroconvulsivether…
(ECT) vs ketamine infusion for improving depressive symptoms in treatment-resistant …

Presynaptic glutamate receptors in nociception

RG Xie, GY Xu, SX Wu, C Luo - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2023 - Elsevier
Chronic pain is a frequent, distressing and poorly understood health problem. Plasticity of
synaptic transmission in the nociceptive pathways after inflammation or injury is assumed to …

[HTML][HTML] The Montreal model: an integrative biomedical-psychedelic approach to ketamine for severe treatment-resistant depression

N Garel, J Drury, J Thibault Lévesque… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Subanesthetic ketamine has accumulated meta-analytic evidence for rapid
antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), resulting in both excitement …