[HTML][HTML] Could ketamine be the answer to treating treatment-resistant major depressive disorder?

AM Ramadan, IA Mansour - General psychiatry, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, serious, debilitating condition affecting 350
million people worldwide, which remains to be unsatisfactorily treated with 53% of patients …

Repurposing of drugs–the ketamine story

J Das - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
An intranasal formulation of esketamine, the S enantiomer of ketamine, in conjunction with
an oral antidepressant, has been approved by the FDA for treating treatment-resistant major …

Ketamine: The hopes and the hurdles

SH Preskorn - Biological Psychiatry, 2012 - biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
Ketamine and related drugs are arguably one of the most exciting developments in
antidepressant pharmacology in more than half a century and are a potentially new …

Antidepressant actions of ketamine: potential role of L-type calcium channels

B Robinson, Q Gu, J Kanungo - Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recently, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved esketamine, the S-
enantiomer of ketamine, as a fast-acting therapeutic drug for treatment-resistant depression …

Subdissociative ketamine use in the emergency department

KA Nichols, CA Paciullo - Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Ketamine is an anesthetic known globally both for its potent dissociative properties and
potential for abuse. More recently, ketamine demonstrates utility in a variety of disease …

The therapeutic role of ketamine and esketamine in treating psychopathological domains of depression

MY Jawad, JD Di Vincenzo, S Badulescu, KM Teopiz… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, ketamine has emerged as a novel effective and rapid-acting
antidepressant. While the vast majority of studies on ketamine have focused on its ability to …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine use for cancer and chronic pain management

C Culp, HK Kim, S Abdi - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, is widely known as a dissociative
anesthetic and phencyclidine derivative. Due to an undesirable adverse event profile when …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine in major depressive disorder: mechanisms and future perspectives

C Shin, YK Kim - Psychiatry investigation, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious psychiatric illness that causes functional
impairment in many people. While monoaminergic antidepressants have been used to …

Ketamine use disorder: preclinical, clinical, and neuroimaging evidence to support proposed mechanisms of actions

L Vines, D Sotelo, A Johnson, E Dennis… - Intelligent …, 2022 - mednexus.org
Ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, has been
exclusively used as an anesthetic in medicine and has led to new insights into the …

Syntheses of ketamine and related analogues: A mini review

I Dimitrov, WA Denny, J Jose - Synthesis, 2018 - thieme-connect.com
Ketamine [2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino) cyclohexanone] is a dissociative anaesthetic,
first developed in 1963 by Parke-Davis. It finds widespread application in the treatment of …