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After administering more than 23,000 ketamine treatments over the past 5 years, we obviously believe in the drug’s importance—saving and changing lives of many patients who suffer from intractable ...

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Paul Melançon, 57, tried dozens of antidepressants across multiple drug classes — first alone, then in combinations that his doctors hoped might work better. None provided lasting relief from his ...

Starting in your brainstem and meandering down your body, two branches of an information highway connect to your chest, heart, lungs, abdomen and intestines. These conduits, called the vagus nerves, ...

Genetic factors are a small but significant contributor to severe depression that does not respond to standard therapy, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and ...

Treatment-resistant depression, or TRD, is a severe condition that can profoundly affect even the most resilient individuals, often leaving them feeling overwhelmed and without hope. With roughly 30% ...

Spravato (esketamine) is a nasal spray used for depression and was approved by the FDA in 2019. It is specifically for treatment-resistant depression, meaning depression symptoms that have not gotten ...

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Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), commonly known as ‘laughing gas,’ continues to draw interest as a potential rapidly acting treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), but data suggest the larger ...

On October 18, 2013, John Gunderson, perhaps the most internationally recognized expert on borderline personality disorder (BPD), wrote a piece in the American Psychiatric Association’s newspaper, ...