Study Finds Ketamine is at Least as Effective as ECT for Treating ...

Ketamine Matches 'Gold Standard' in Major Depression Trial

"First, it shows that ECT in day-to-day outpatient treatment of resistant depression is not as effective as reported in research studies, which ...

No more shocks? Study shows drug treatment for major depression ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio— The anesthetic drug ketamine is at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy for treating major depression and has ...

Ketamine shows promise for treatment-resistant depression in new ...

Researchers compared the use of ketamine infusions with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and found that ketamine may be as effective as ...

Ketamine versus electroconvulsive therapy for major depressive ...

Our main findings were as follows: (1) the non-inferiority of ketamine to ECT was not shown in terms of response rate; (2) among inpatients, ketamine was ...

Benjamin Ryan on X: "Study finds ketamine is at least as effective as ...

Study finds ketamine is at least as effective as ECT for treating major depression A trial of 403 patients found that 55% of those who ...

Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine vs Electroconvulsive Therapy ...

Findings This systematic review and meta-analysis of 6 trials with 340 patients suggests that ECT may be superior to ketamine in improving ...

Ketamine's promise for severe depression grows, but major ...

Called Bio-K, the study involved 74 people treated at four clinics in Michigan, Maryland and Minnesota. After just three infusions of ketamine ...

A Comparison of Ketamine and Electroconvulsive Therapy for ...

To date, no large, head-to-head trials have compared the effectiveness of ECT to intravenous ketamine for treatment-resistant depression. While a prior ...

What a new study reveals about ketamine for treatment-resistant ...

Meanwhile, ECT patients were advised to receive three treatments each week. Roughly 93% of both treatment groups completed the full treatment.

Ketamine better than ECT for depression – Harvard study

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that the anaesthetic ketamine, when administered intravenously, was at least ...

Ketamine and ECT: better alone than together? - The Lancet

In this context, it is a good ECT anaesthetic agent, with modest seizure-enhancing properties and a reasonable tolerability profile, albeit ...

Ketamine a Viable Alternative to ECT for Severe Depression?

... trial suggests ketamine is at least as effective, and with fewer side effects ... trials of antidepressant treatment. Prior to initiation ...

Could Ketamine Treat Severe Depression? - Smithsonian Magazine

Research suggests the anesthetic is at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy, the current standard for treatment-resistant ...

Important Insights for the Use of Ketamine From Randomized ...

Important findings from the study8 are presented in Table 1. In summary, there were fewer dropouts and treatment failures with ECT than with ...

Ketamine helped many severely depressed veterans, study shows

For a minority, it led to full remission. Nearly half of 215 veterans with treatment-resistant depression who received IV ketamine at Veterans ...

Depression: 4-week ketamine injections prove effective

This study provides evidence of the efficacy of ketamine — at least the racemic form — in depression with a high level of treatment resistance ...

Ketamine Compared With ECT for Resistant Major Depression

People with treatment-resistant depression now have an alternative to ECT. A new study finds that ketamine is at least as effective, ...

Ketamine vs Electroconvulsive Therapy | Keta Medical Center Blog

Both ECT and ketamine have been proven to help people with mood disorders and treatment resistant depression. What are the pros and cons of ...

Ketamine vs. ECT: A Breakthrough Study on Treatment-Resistant ...

The unique mechanism of action behind ketamine's effectiveness involves its ability to block NMDA receptors and influence glutamate signaling in ...

Ketamine-based anesthesia improves electroconvulsive therapy ...

4 Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is suggested when symptoms of MDD persist after at least two trials of antidepressants from different ...