Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: a state-of-the-art review

L Burback, S Brult-Phillips, MJ Nijdam… - Current …, 2024 - benthamdirect.com
This narrative state-of-the-art review paper describes the progress in the understanding and
treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Over the last four decades, the scientific …

Rapid‐acting antidepressant ketamine, its metabolites and other candidates: A historical overview and future perspective

K Hashimoto - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most disabling psychiatric disorders.
Approximately one‐third of the patients with MDD are treatment resistant to the current …

Lower synaptic density is associated with depression severity and network alterations

SE Holmes, D Scheinost, SJ Finnema… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Synaptic loss and deficits in functional connectivity are hypothesized to contribute to
symptoms associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress …

The biology of human resilience: Opportunities for enhancing resilience across the life span

A Feder, S Fred-Torres, SM Southwick, DS Charney - Biological psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent scientific and technological advances have brought us closer to being able to apply
a true biopsychosocial approach to the study of resilience in humans. Decades of research …

[HTML][HTML] Novel pharmacological targets in drug development for the treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders

SB Sartori, N Singewald - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Current medication for anxiety disorders is suboptimal in terms of efficiency and tolerability,
highlighting the need for improved drug treatments. In this review an overview of drugs …

International pooled patient-level meta-analysis of ketamine infusion for depression: in search of clinical moderators

RB Price, N Kissel, A Baumeister, R Rohac… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Depression is disabling and highly prevalent. Intravenous (IV) ketamine displays rapid-onset
antidepressant properties, but little is known regarding which patients are most likely to …

Ketamine as an antidepressant: overview of its mechanisms of action and potential predictive biomarkers

D Matveychuk, RK Thomas… - Therapeutic …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Ketamine, a drug introduced in the 1960s as an anesthetic agent and still used for that
purpose, has garnered marked interest over the past two decades as an emerging treatment …

Ketamine—50 years in use: from anesthesia to rapid antidepressant effects and neurobiological mechanisms

S Kohtala - Pharmacological Reports, 2021 - Springer
Over the past 50 years, ketamine has solidified its position in both human and veterinary
medicine as an important anesthetic with many uses. More recently, ketamine has been …

Ketamine and serotonergic psychedelics: common mechanisms underlying the effects of rapid-acting antidepressants

B Kadriu, M Greenwald, ID Henter… - International Journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The glutamatergic modulator ketamine has created a blueprint for studying
novel pharmaceuticals in the field. Recent studies suggest that “classic” serotonergic …

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 …