Ketamine to overcome Depression
Ketamine originally designed as an anesthetic, a sedative, had designated a class C drug consumed and even banned in 2006. However, the drug is now also known by the nickname ‘Special K’, according to the researchers, had a miraculous efficacy of patient recovery from depression.
This drug is proven to work quickly encourage regeneration of synaptic connection between nerve cells in the brain. Thus, not surprisingly, the researchers hope the drug will be able to give direction to the antidepressant medication which is better.
From experiments have been conducted, showed that depressed patients who have resistance to all types of care and treatment progress after taking ketamine. This drug is actually not part of the therapy must be given practical because intravenously as antidepressants and may cause short-term psychotic symptoms.
Even so, the researchers said ketamine can serve as a guide for the more promising new treatment for depression. Professor Ronald Duman, a psychiatrist from Yale University. say, Ketamine can be compared to like a magic drug, one dose of ketamine can work quickly and its effects can last up to 10 days.
Most antidepressants like Prozac takes about a week and even months to feel its benefit, whereas ketamine only takes a few hours. (e-lifestyle.us/Julian/auth).
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