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Ketamine for Depression: The Most Important Advance in Field in 50 Years?
Time Healthland ^ | 10-05-2012 | Maia Szalavitz

Posted on 10/06/2012 4:37:30 PM PDT by Renfield

In any given year, 7% of adults suffer from major depression, and at least 1 in 10 youth will reckon with the disorder at some point during their teenage years. But about 20% of these cases will not respond to current treatments; for those that do, relief may take weeks to months to come.

There is one treatment, however, that works much faster: the anesthetic and “club drug” ketamine. It takes effect within hours. A single dose of ketamine produces relief of depression that has been shown in studies to last for up to 10 days; it also appears to reduce symptoms of bipolar disorder and suicidal thoughts. Now, a new research review published in Science calls the discovery of these effects of ketamine, “”arguably the most important discovery in half a century” of depression research....

(Excerpt) Read more at healthland.time.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: depression; ketamine; medicine; pharmaceuticals
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1 posted on 10/06/2012 4:37:36 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: Renfield

Maybe the reason so many people are DEPRESSED is because we are living through a DEPRESSION.


2 posted on 10/06/2012 4:39:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Barack would prefer that you take the pain pill and let him continue on screwing the taxpayers and raping the Constitution.


3 posted on 10/06/2012 4:43:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Renfield

This is what they use to tranquilize horses, right? So a good dose removes depression for 10 days by rendering you unconscious for that period.


4 posted on 10/06/2012 4:49:13 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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To: Renfield
Soma® for you, Citizen !
5 posted on 10/06/2012 4:50:34 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Renfield

Send that depression down the K-Hole.


6 posted on 10/06/2012 4:54:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Renfield
Hard to see how halalucinaitng and being incapacitated for hours can be an improvement over depression, unless the benefits persist long after the side effects wear off.
7 posted on 10/06/2012 4:56:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: bigheadfred

So a good dose removes depression for 10 days by rendering you unconscious for that period.”

Maybe we should slip some to Matthews and all the other Dimwits that were so depressed after BO lost the first debate. Silence for 10 days would be golden indeed.


8 posted on 10/06/2012 5:02:30 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Renfield
Well, now we know what the next fad in substances-of-abuse will be.

I remember when Time and Newsweak ran similar articles on the wonders of Ecstasy.

9 posted on 10/06/2012 5:04:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: bigheadfred

My son was seriously injured in Afghanistan 18 months ago, and he was kept in a coma for 8 days with ketamine. I thought it was for the pain, since just about every bone in his lower back down to his toes was broken.

Whatever it was for, the outcome in the end was fine. But when he did come around, there were some very weird things coming out of his mouth!


10 posted on 10/06/2012 5:05:02 PM PDT by kevslisababy
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To: tomkat

Exactly......There is no help for “hopelessness” except “hope”. (God). You drug people to cover up their “emotions” which is NOT help...........it is what they do to the old people in nursing homes-—drug the masses, so it takes little work to deal with them and their problems and they are quiet.

Think of all the drugs people 40 and over take....just like Soma-——emotions are NOT TIED TO BEHAVIORS; they are CAUSED BY A PILL. It is evil.

How inhumane is that—to disconnect emotions from behavior.

Brave New World and/or 1984.


11 posted on 10/06/2012 5:05:09 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Renfield
Know the facts.

12 posted on 10/06/2012 5:06:11 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: bigheadfred

I might point out that winning the Lottery removes depression for as long as the money holds out.


13 posted on 10/06/2012 5:18:10 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: UCANSEE2

0bama has sent numerous conservative elderly Americans to an early grave due to a prolonged forced tolerance of his unacceptable comments and unconstitutional actions. Stress kills.


14 posted on 10/06/2012 5:21:22 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Renfield
To anyone interested, St. John's wort (Solaray 2x/day) ia a godsend for moderate depression and sleep issues
15 posted on 10/06/2012 5:21:43 PM PDT by bramps
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To: bigheadfred
It's used in veterinary medicine as a paralytic drug. For instance for equine castrations they sedate the horse and then give him ketamine to keep him still and down until the deed is done. Putting a horse totally out in the field is not done. Horses are too fragile coming out of anesthetics to be done in an uncontrolled setting.
16 posted on 10/06/2012 5:22:29 PM PDT by Himyar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That fad went over back in the 1990s. Its street name is “Special K”.


17 posted on 10/06/2012 5:22:33 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
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18 posted on 10/06/2012 5:32:18 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: Grams A

Can you make brain dead people unconscious? I’m not sure ketamine would have any effect on those fools.


19 posted on 10/06/2012 5:50:30 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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To: kevslisababy

I hope he is recovering well.

And THANK him (from my family) for his service!


20 posted on 10/06/2012 5:52:21 PM PDT by bigheadfred (wowza)
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