Depression feels like a cellar wherein the sunlight enters, but doesn’t warm. It is agonizing to be trapped in such a dull, lifeless, often scary place…and all the more so when you’re trying hard to leave, but can’t find the exit. This is the frequent experience of...
Treatment resistant depression is exactly what it sounds like: major depressive disorder (MDD) that, despite standard intervention, fails to respond to treatment. Experts have not settled on a single definition of the condition but failing to respond to two...
Ketamine first received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1970 for use as a surgical anesthetic. Due to its short duration of action and reduced behavioral toxicity, it gained favor over other common anesthetics, and continues to be widely...
The last fifty years have been characterized by rapid change. Those born in the 70s and 80s remember the dawn of the internet, the advent of the cellphone, and, more recently, the birth of social media. These innovations carry far-reaching consequences, and yet no...
Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 by Professor Calvin L. Stevens, and in 1970 the medication was granted FDA approval as a surgical anesthetic. In the decades that followed, researchers began to uncover the drug’s extraordinary potential to treat mental health...
