ketamine
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- noun
- /ˈkɛtəˌmiːn/
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ketamina
- After several sessions, the doctor confirmed that ketamine had significantly improved her mood and reduced her depressive symptoms.
- ketamine infusion
- ketamine treatment
- antidepressant effects of ketamine
But a practical strategy is go find a ketamine therapist.
- But a practical strategy is go find a ketamine therapist.
- Yeah, in the people that had a had an antidepressant effect with ketamine plus placebo alone.
- So there are ways now to treat this and ketamine is used clinically at later periods too.
- He is a doctor that operates out of the Bay Area who is a pioneer in ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
- But I did the psychedelic drug like therapy once, you know, like treatment with like ketamine.
- But I think at least up until now, we've focused on the two major pathways for treatment, lithium and ketamine.
- Well, and that's where you talk about what happens is we know that ketamine helps nerves grow.
- I have an MD and I saw ketamine work pretty well.
- I think we're in very exciting times for those compounds and they're like, there are studies at Stanford and elsewhere on ketamine and other things, but it's early days.
- And it turns out that ketamine actually acts like BDNF in the brain, but you can get BDNF naturally through exercise.
Examples
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Many patients with treatment-resistant depression have found relief through ketamine infusions that act quickly.
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This is a form of ketamine approved for depression.
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And so now one form of ketamine is actually approved by the FDA in the United States as a treatment for depression.
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So there are ways now to treat this and ketamine is used clinically at later periods too.
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Clinical studies show that ketamine can provide rapid relief from severe depression when traditional antidepressants fail.
Synonyms
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An illegal drug people use at parties to feel strange or see things
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A drug called ketamine used illegally to get high
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A street name for the illegal drug ketamine
A medicine given in low doses that works quickly to reduce severe depression when other treatments fail
A brand name for a drug that makes animals or people unconscious for surgery
Compounds
A medicine that makes people and animals sleep or calm during surgery, sometimes used illegally for hallucinations
- Specialized
A medicine given in low doses that works quickly to reduce severe depression when other treatments fail
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ketamine comes from the chemical parts ketone and amine, with a 'ketone' meaning a certain chemical group and an 'amine' being like ammonia. That's why the name describes the drug's chemistry, and a helpful way to remember its psychiatric use is that the same medicine, at low doses, can act quickly to reduce very severe depression.