Ketamine for Treatment‐Resistant bipolar depression—A reality check!

B Singh - Bipolar Disorders, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Ketamine is a novel drug used for treatment-resistant depression. KETAMINE RESPONSE
AND BIPOLAR DISORDER SUBTYPE This study raises an important question-does …

A preliminary study of adjunctive ketamine for treatment-resistant bipolar depression

W Zheng, YL Zhou, WJ Liu, CY Wang, YN Zhan… - Journal of affective …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Ketamine has shown rapid antidepressant effects in depressed patients.
However, the antidepressant and antisuicidal effects of repeated ketamine infusions in …

Intravenous ketamine infusions in treatment-resistant bipolar depression: an open-label naturalistic observational study

A Wilkowska, A Włodarczyk… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Bipolar disorder is a chronic and recurrent condition often associated with
treatment resistance and suicidality. There is an unmet need for effective treatment in this …

Replication of ketamine's antidepressant efficacy in bipolar depression: a randomized controlled add-on trial

CA Zarate Jr, NE Brutsche, L Ibrahim… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Currently, no pharmacological treatments for bipolar depression exist that
exert rapid (within hours) antidepressant or antisuicidal effects. We previously reported that …

Concomitant benzodiazepine use attenuates ketamine response: implications for large scale study design and clinical development

MA Frye, P Blier, SJ Tye - Journal of clinical psychopharmacology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The most recent data from the Global Burden of Disease Study highlight that 47.5%(ie, 183.9
million) of all disability-adjusted life years are attributable to mood disorders with an …

Can ketamine be a safe option for treatment-resistant bipolar depression?

B Singh, JL Vande Voort, MA Frye… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a recurrent condition with fluctuating mood swings from energetic
mania/hypomania to severe depression, leading to significant disability and a high risk of …

Ketamine for treatment-resistant unipolar depression: current evidence

SJ Mathew, A Shah, K Lapidus, C Clark, N Jarun… - CNS drugs, 2012 - Springer
Currently available drugs for unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD), which target
monoaminergic systems, have a delayed onset of action andsignificant limitations in …

Ketamine's effectiveness in unipolar versus bipolar depression

G Fond, L Boyer - Psychopharmacology, 2014 - Springer
Dear Dr. Price, We read with great interest the letter of McGuirr and Berlim (2014) in
response to our work. We are in agreement with their general comment on improving …

Ketamine: clinical studies in treatment-resistant depressive disorders

P Blier, J Blier - Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: The first …, 2016 - Springer
Since the first report of a robust antidepressant effect of a sub-anesthetic dose of ketamine in
2000, studies have repeatedly confirmed its therapeutic benefits in major depressive …

Ketamine augmentation rapidly improves depression scores in inpatients with treatment-resistant bipolar depression

JK Rybakowski, A Permoda-Osip… - … journal of psychiatry …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To study the clinical effect of a single ketamine infusion, 0.5 mg/kg body weight, in
bipolar depressive patients receiving mood-stabilising drugs, not improving on …