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Ketamine nasal spray may prove safe and effective treatment for refractory migraine

Written by | 3 Jun 2023

Ketamine taken in the form of a nasal spray may prove a safe and effective treatment for refractory chronic migraine, suggests a single centre study, published in the […]

Study finds ketamine is at least as effective as ECT for treating major depression

Written by | 29 May 2023

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that subanesthetic intravenous ketamine was effective and not inferior to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for the treatment of non-psychotic, […]

Ketamine found to increase brain noise

Written by | 30 Dec 2022

An international team of researchers including Sofya Kulikova, Senior Research Fellow at the HSE University-Perm, found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain’s background noise, causing higher […]

Low addiction risk with medical use of ketamine

Written by | 6 Aug 2022

Commonly used in medicine as an anaesthetic, ketamine is also increasingly prescribed to relieve depressive symptoms. This very fast-acting psychotropic drug is particularly indicated for the treatment of […]

Ketamine is effective for severe suicidal ideation

Written by | 16 Feb 2022

Ketamine is effective for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation, researchers reported on February 2, 2022 in The BMJ/British Medical Journal. “This study confirmed in a large […]

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