Discovery medicine
September 23, 2026
Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Eduardo Pondé de Sena
Background: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) represents a major clinical challenge, being associated with high morbidity, increased suicide risk, and substantial socioeconomic burden. The need for rapidly acting interventions has driven the development of rapid-acting antidepressants (RAADs), such as ketamine, esketamine, and scopolamine. This study aimed to systematically review the...
Advances in rheumatology (London, England)
July 29, 2024
Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Eduardo Pondé de Sena
8 citations
Fibromyalgia (FM) subjects are treated with antidepressant agents; in most cases, these drugs lose efficacy or have adverse effects. Ketamine is an anesthetic drug used in FM in some studies. This article aims to systematically review the safety and efficacy of ketamine in fibromyalgia (FM) patients. We systematically searched articles on FM and ketamine published at Pubmed from 1966 to 2021....
Journal of Physics: Complexity
January 22, 2024
Caroline L. Alves, Manuel Ciba, Thaise G. L. de O. Toutain et al.
5 citations
There is a growing interest in the medical use of psychedelic substances, as preliminary studies using them for psychiatric disorders have shown positive results. In particular, one of these substances is N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an agonist serotonergic psychedelic that can induce profound alterations in the state of consciousness. In this work, we use an exploratory tool to reveal...
medRxiv
June 16, 2022
Caroline L. Alves, Thaise G. L. de O. Toutain, Joel Augusto Moura Porto et al.
preprint
There is a growing interest in the medical use of psychedelic substances as preliminary studies using them for psychiatric disorders have shown positive results. In particularly, one of these substances is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) an agonist serotonergic psychedelic that can induce profound alterations in state of consciousness. In this work, we propose a computational method based on...
Revista de Ciências Médicas e Biológicas
May 24, 2016
Lucas Rocha de Britto, Arão Nogueira de Araújo, Roberto Paulo Correia de Araújo et al.
2 citations
Objetivo: revisar a literatura sobre a associação entre uso de cannabis e o desenvolvimento de esquizofrenia. Metodologia: revisão sistemática da literatura realizada em bases de dados eletrônicas (PubMed e SciELO), que inclui revisões e estudos observacionais (estudos de coorte e cortes transversais) publicados no período de janeiro de 2000 a novembro de 2015, além de estudos encontrados...