Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Neurobiology and Applications

Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Neurobiology and Applications provides a simple, evidence-based overview for neuropsychiatrists and translational researchers on this medication, its mechanisms of actions, eligibility of patients for treatment, and the preparation and implementation of ketamine clinics.

Provides efficacy research on ketamine as a treatment for depressionIdentifies best practices for clinical use, both long-term and acuteDiscusses the molecular mechanisms and neurobiology of action

1. Ketamine, Clio, and the hippocratic triangled fragments of the history of ketamine
2. Ketamine’s potential mechanism of action for rapid antidepressive effects – a focus on neuroplasticity
3. Treatment resistant depression
4. Suicide in psychiatric disorders: rates, risk factors, and therapeutics
5. Overview of ketamine for major depression: efficacy and effectiveness
6. How to implement a ketamine clinic
7. Development of new rapid-action treatments in mood disorders
8. Closing remarks