Objective: Ketamine has proven effective as a rapid-acting antidepressant agent. Several adult studies have investigated the association between ketamine's acute dissociative effects and depression response, but no studies have examined the association in adolescents with treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Methods: We conducted a secondary data analysis of 16 adolescent participants who...
OBJECTIVE Adolescent depression is prevalent and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Although intravenous ketamine has shown efficacy in adult treatment-resistant depression, its efficacy in pediatric populations is unknown. The authors conducted an active-placebo-controlled study of ketamine's safety and efficacy in adolescents. METHODS In this proof-of-concept randomized,...
Background Despite widely reported clinical and preclinical studies of rapid antidepressant actions of glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonists, there has been very little work examining the effects of these drugs in stress models of depression that require chronic administration of antidepressants, or the molecular mechanisms that could account for the rapid responses....