[HTML][HTML] Long-term safety and maintenance of response with esketamine nasal spray in participants with treatment-resistant depression: interim results of the SUSTAIN …

N Zaki, L Chen, R Lane, T Doherty… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) have higher rates of relapse and
pronounced decreases in daily functioning and health-related quality of life compared to …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine for the treatment of major depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Nikolin, A Rodgers, A Schwaab, A Bahji… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Intranasal esketamine has received regulatory approvals for the treatment of
depression. Recently a large trial of repeated dose racemic ketamine also demonstrated …

Real-world experience of esketamine use to manage treatment-resistant depression: a multicentric study on safety and effectiveness (REAL-ESK study)

G Martinotti, A Vita, A Fagiolini, G Maina… - Journal of Affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Treatment-resistant Depression (TRD) represents a widespread
disorder with significant direct and indirect healthcare costs. esketamine, the S-enantiomer …

Long-term safety of ketamine and esketamine in treatment of depression

S Nikayin, E Murphy, JH Krystal… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Ketamine can produce rapid-acting antidepressant effects. Esketamine
(Spravato), the S-enantiomer of racemic ketamine, was approved by the FDA for treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine—50 years in use: from anesthesia to rapid antidepressant effects and neurobiological mechanisms

S Kohtala - Pharmacological Reports, 2021 - Springer
Over the past 50 years, ketamine has solidified its position in both human and veterinary
medicine as an important anesthetic with many uses. More recently, ketamine has been …

Esketamine for treatment-resistant depression: seven concerns about efficacy and FDA approval

EH Turner - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2019 - thelancet.com
Comment 978 www. thelancet. com/psychiatry Vol 6 December 2019 from the phase 3
clinical trials, which are freely available in the public domain in the form of the slides and …

[HTML][HTML] Ventromedial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex Glx, glutamate, and GABA levels in medication-free major depressive disorder

JT Kantrowitz, Z Dong, MS Milak, R Rashid… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Glutamate (Glu) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are implicated in the
pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD). GABA levels or GABAergic …

Ketamine: a tale of two enantiomers

LA Jelen, AH Young, JM Stone - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine,
an uncompetitive N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antagonist, is arguably the most important …

Pharmacotherapies for treatment-resistant depression: how antipsychotics fit in the rapidly evolving therapeutic landscape

MK Jha, SJ Mathew - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
One in three adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) do not experience clinically
significant improvement after multiple sequential courses of antidepressants and have …

Efficacy and tolerability of combination treatments for major depression: antidepressants plus second-generation antipsychotics vs. esketamine vs. lithium

GH Vázquez, A Bahji, J Undurraga… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Successful treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) can be challenging,
and failures (" treatment-resistant depression"[TRD]) are frequent. Steps to address TRD …