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

A new study led by investigators from Mass General Brigham has found that subanesthetic intravenous ketamine was effective and not inferior ...

Ketamine versus ECT for Nonpsychotic Treatment-Resistant Major ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has a track record of nearly 80 years as one of the most effective and rapid strategies for treatment-resistant ...

ELEKT-D Study: Ketamine as Effective as ECT for Treating Major ...

In the clinical trial with 365 participants—which took place between March 2017 and September 2022 at five sites—55 percent of those receiving ...

Depression: Ketamine May Be More Effective Treatment Than ECT

New research finds that ketamine may be a more effective treatment for severe depression than electroconvulsive therapy.

Ketamine is Comparable to Electroconvulsive Therapy for the ...

New study reveals that ketamine rivals electroconvulsive therapy for the management of treatment-resistant depression, giving clinicians an ...

Ketamine shown comparable to ECT for serious depression | STAT

Now a new study has found that ketamine performs at least as well as the current gold standard for such patients, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) ...

Ketamine found effective in treatment-resistant depression

A new study finds ketamine as effective as electroconvulsive therapy ... least a 50 percent improvement in their self-reported depressive ...

Trial Finds Ketamine and ECT About Equally Effective for Most ...

... effective as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment of major depressive disorder that has not responded to conventional therapies. The ...

Efficacy and Safety of Ketamine vs Electroconvulsive Therapy ...

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

Ketamine may be better option than ECT for less severe treatment ...

Key takeaways: · Researchers analyzed data from patients with treatment-resistant depression given ketamine or electroconvulsive therapy. · Those ...

Ketamine Shows Promise for Hard-to-Treat Depression in New Study

Research this week presents the most robust evidence to date that ketamine is at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy for ...

Ketamine vs Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant ...

Findings In this secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, 365 adults with nonpsychotic treatment-resistant major depression, ...

Ketamine vs Electroconvulsive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant ...

In this secondary analysis of the ELEKT-D randomized clinical trial of ECT vs ketamine, greater improvement in depression was observed with ...

Ketamine Treatments Found to Be At Least as Effective as ECT

"This study shows us that intravenous ketamine was non-inferior to ECT for treatment of non-psychotic treatment-resistant depression and could ...

Ketamine is as effective as ECT for depression, study shows

A trial of patients with treatment-resistant depression found ketamine to be at least as effective as electroconvulsive therapy.

expert reaction to trial looking at ketamine versus ECT for ...

The study found that intravenous ketamine was as effective as ECT in the treatment of severe depression. It is of great interest because ECT ...

New Study Shows Ketamine for Depression May Be Better than ECT

Latest research shows ketamine as a promising, safe treatment ... ECT is at least 50% effective for individuals with treatment-resistant ...

Electroconvulsive therapy or ketamine? Clinical factors affect ...

Patients with moderate to severe treatment-resistant depression (TRD) might have better symptom relief from ketamine infusions than from electroconvulsive ...

Ketamine Infusions Are As Good As Electroconvulsive Therapy

... research which shows ketamine infusions are just as effective as ECT for treatment-resistant depression ... It is typically used as a last resort ...

Ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression

Ketamine, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and their combination are effective for treating severe depression, but few large-scale studies have compared these.