Ketamine could heal in minutes

A new study, relayed by Santé Log, has shown that ketamine has a rapid, even immediate, effect against depressive symptoms. Ketamine is an illicit substance for humans, used as a veterinary anesthetic.

This new research from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that two-thirds of participants who did not respond to traditional antidepressants experienced rapid and sustained remission of their depressive symptoms after receiving ketamine (by intravenous). In addition, the effects of ketamine lasted approximately one week on the members of the cohort.

G proteins

Antidepressants take weeks to act on depressive symptoms, which, in the context of Severe depression, leaves a significant time field to the patient's suicide attempts.

Mark Rasenick, professor of physiology and psychiatry at the University of Illinois, explains that under the effect of ketamine, G proteins, whose accumulation in the brain is partly responsible for the development of symptoms depressive, are destroyed much more quickly than under the effect of conventional antidepressants.

For 57% of French people, depression also leaves significant sequelae, which diminish the capacity. Thus, the French believe that a person suffering from a depressive episode is likely to be psychologically fragile (78%), to experience new depressive episodes (74%) and to require more attention (73%).

Pathological episode

"However, depression is not the cause of a lasting handicap, it is a pathological episode and not an intrinsic state of the person. image of a broken leg, a depression is a fracture in existence, with its care and temporality.As after a leg fracture, beyond a period of consolidation there is no reason to consider that it persists a fragility ", badysis Raphaël Gaillard, psychiatrist at Sainte-Anne Hospital.

Depression is a disease that affects all ages, from childhood to very late in life. In 2010, 7.5% of 15- to 85-year-olds would have experienced a depressive episode, with a prevalence twice as high among women as among men (source: National Institute for Prevention and Health Education). The prevalence of depressive disorders is estimated to be 2.1 to 3.4% in children and 14% in adolescents.

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