In recent years, ketamine therapy has become increasingly entangled with psychedelic culture, leading to widespread misinterpretation of its therapeutic mechanism. This manuscript challenges the prevailing narrative that positions ketamine as a consciousness-expanding agent or psychotherapy enhancer, highlighting the discord between this view and ketamine's well-established neurobiological...
Being diagnosed with cancer and coping with fears about potential death might trigger acute distress. Previous research found that patients with cancer are 1.85 times more at risk of developing mental illness. Whereas previous studies investigated the risk of schizophrenia, no studies have investigated the risk of individual psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations. This was an analysis of the...