Laura E Newman

Change in cytokine levels is not associated with rapid antidepressant response to ketamine in treatment-resistant depression.

Journal of Psychiatric Research January 2017 Minkyung Park, Laura E Newman, Philip W Gold et al.

Several pro-inflammatory cytokines have been implicated in depression and in antidepressant response. This exploratory analysis assessed: 1) the extent to which baseline cytokine levels predicted positive antidepressant response to ketamine; 2) whether ketamine responders experienced acute changes in cytokine levels not observed in non-responders; and 3) whether ketamine lowered levels of...