Minneapolis St. Paul Mental Health Blog

Mental Health | Ketamine could be an effective treatment for suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide risk in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), according to a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Mental health matters | Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was found to be a more effective major depressive episode treatment than ketamine,...

...though each treatment has its own set of unique adverse effects, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Patients who took ketamine reported depression half as often as patients who took other drugs for pain,

...according to an analysis of 8 million reports from the US Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database.

Treating Depression | With increasing off-label use of ketamine in patients with severe depression and other psychiatric disorders,

an expert group of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has published a consensus statement to help guide safe and appropriate use of the anesthetic.

Patients who took ketamine reported depression half as often as patients who took other drugs for pain,

according to an analysis of 8 million reports from the US Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database.