ecancermedicalscience
June 26, 2026
Anirban Pal, Purnava Mukhopadhyay, N. D. Pal et al.
Background: Cancer patients suffer from higher rates of psycho-social challenges. In the Indian context, their stress and psycho-social morbidities are often inadequately addressed. The researchers introduced a brief structured mindfulness group (Group M) therapy for them in a community cancer-care setting. The primary objective was to see an improvement in mental stress. Additionally, changes...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
October 9, 2023
Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, Shawn M. Mcclintock, S. Joshi et al.
6 citations
Introduction Subanesthetic ketamine is a rapidly acting antidepressant that has also been found to improve neurocognitive performance in adult patients with treatment resistant depression (TRD). Provisional evidence suggests that ketamine may induce change in hippocampal volume and that larger pre-treatment volumes might be related to positive clinical outcomes. Here, we examine the effects of...
Journal of Affective Disorders
April 1, 2023
Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, Shawn M. Mcclintock, Jacqueline Khalil et al.
16 citations
INTRODUCTION Ketamine treatment prompts a rapid antidepressant response in treatment-resistant depression (TRD). We performed an exploratory investigation of how ketamine treatment in TRD affects different cognitive domains and relates to antidepressant response. METHODS Patients with TRD (N = 66; 30 M/35F; age = 39.5 ± 11.1 years) received four ketamine infusions (0.5 mg/kg). Neurocognitive...
Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine
September 25, 2020
Medha Kaushik, Akarshi Jain, Puneet Agarwal et al.
During recent decades, stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, chronic tension headache, and migraine have established their stronghold in the lives of a vast number of people worldwide. In order to address this global phenomenon, intensive studies have been carried out leading to the advancement of drugs like anti-depressants, anxiolytics, and analgesics which...