Current Trends in Identifying Rapidly Acting Treatments for Depression.
Current behavioral neuroscience reports June 1, 2016 Dawn F. Ionescu, George I. Papakostas
Traditional antidepressant medications generally take weeks-to-months to achieve effect. However, the breakthrough finding of ketamine's rapidly acting antidepressant properties has inspired a decade-and-a-half of progress towards the identification of treatments that work quickly-within hours-to-days. This paradigm-shift in the discovery of antidepressant therapies has significantly changed...