Do you think ketamine will ever be prescribed for depression?
I spent a lot of years researching depression for my degree….and this is one of my favorite quotes to have come out of my work… “”Research on unipolar depression has been dominated by catecholamine and seratonin concepts of disturbed neurotransmitter receptor function. These fields are undoubtably important and the partial successes of the tricyclic antidepressants and the selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and the related drugs have kept the pharmaceutical industry research focused on the identification of better and safer drugs within these classes. The dominance of industry funding in this field has obscured the facts that about 30% of patients do not respond to any drug, that the definition for response for those who do respond is usually a 50% rather than an 80-100% improvement in rating scores, and that in terms of efficacy the current drugs are no better than those introduced in the 1950’s…..Given the intensity of research on neurotransmitter hypotheses, we ha
