History repeating: guidelines to address common problems in psychedelic science

M van Elk, EI Fried - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Research in the last decade has expressed considerable optimism about the clinical
potential of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders. This optimism is reflected in …

Pharmacotherapies for treatment-resistant depression: how antipsychotics fit in the rapidly evolving therapeutic landscape

MK Jha, SJ Mathew - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
One in three adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not experience clinically
significant improvement after multiple sequential courses of antidepressants and have …

Comparative effectiveness of intravenous ketamine and intranasal esketamine in clinical practice among patients with treatment-refractory depression: an …

B Singh, S Kung, V Pazdernik… - The Journal of …, 2023 - legacy.psychiatrist.com
Objective: Ketamine has been redeveloped as a rapid-acting antidepressant for treatment-
resistant depression (TRD). There is a paucity of literature comparing subanesthetic …

Measuring acute effects of subanesthetic ketamine on cerebrovascular hemodynamics in humans using TD-fNIRS

A Castillo, J Dubois, RM Field, F Fishburn… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Quantifying neural activity in natural conditions (ie conditions comparable to the standard
clinical patient experience) during the administration of psychedelics may further our …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting outcome with Intranasal Esketamine treatment: A machine-learning, three-month study in Treatment-Resistant Depression (ESK-LEARNING)

M Pettorruso, R Guidotti, G d'Andrea, L De Risio… - Psychiatry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) represents a severe clinical condition with
high social and economic costs. Esketamine Nasal Spray (ESK-NS) has recently been …

Ketamine vs electroconvulsive therapy for treatment-resistant depression: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

MK Jha, ST Wilkinson, K Krishnan, KA Collins… - JAMA network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The ELEKT-D: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) vs Ketamine in Patients With
Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD)(ELEKT-D) trial demonstrated noninferiority of …

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 …

Brain-based correlates of antidepressant response to ketamine: a comprehensive systematic review of neuroimaging studies

GC Medeiros, M Matheson, I Demo, MJ Reid… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Ketamine is an effective antidepressant, but there is substantial variability in patient
response and the precise mechanism of action is unclear. Neuroimaging can provide …

Antidepressant mechanisms of ketamine: a review of actions with relevance to treatment-resistance and neuroprogression

APM Lullau, EMW Haga, EH Ronold… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Concurrent with recent insights into the neuroprogressive nature of depression, ketamine
shows promise in interfering with several neuroprogressive factors, and has been suggested …

Repeated (S)-ketamine administration ameliorates the spatial working memory impairment in mice with chronic pain: role of the gut microbiota–brain axis

Y Jiang, X Wang, J Chen, Y Zhang, K Hashimoto… - Gut …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Chronic pain is commonly linked with diminished working memory. This study explores the
impact of the anesthetic (S)-ketamine on spatial working memory in a chronic constriction …