{"id":175101,"date":"2023-10-27T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/simply-being-told-you-were-given-ketamine-could-be-enough-to-treat-depression"},"modified":"2023-10-27T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T04:24:01","slug":"simply-being-told-you-were-given-ketamine-could-be-enough-to-treat-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/simply-being-told-you-were-given-ketamine-could-be-enough-to-treat-depression","title":{"rendered":"Simply Being Told You Were Given Ketamine Could Be Enough to Treat Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simply-being-told-you-were-given-ketamine-could-be-enough-to-treat-depression2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those with stubbornly resistant forms of severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/depression\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">depression<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">ketamine<\/a> was looking more and more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-drug-might-offer-hope-for-those-with-difficult-to-treat-depression\">like a solution<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine-found-to-have-an-unbelievable-effect-in-treating-severe-depression\">Years of research<\/a> has hinted at the dissociative anesthetic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine-eases-suicidal-thoughts-depression-within-hours\">treatment potential<\/a> where other medications failed, promising the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine-can-treat-depression-as-effectively-as-electroconvulsive-therapy\">benefits of electroshock therapy<\/a> with far fewer risks.<\/p>\n<p>For all of the excitement, separating the hope from the hype has been challenged by the drug\u2019s strong psychoactive effects. How can you conduct a blind test for a drug that so overtly detaches the mind from the body?<\/p>\n<p>By taking advantage of the unconscious state of patients under general anesthesia, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine in the US put ketamine to the ultimate, gold standard test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those with stubbornly resistant forms of severe depression, ketamine was looking more and more like a solution. Years of research has hinted at the dissociative anesthetic\u2019s treatment potential where other medications failed, promising the benefits of electroshock therapy with far fewer risks. For all of the excitement, separating the hope from the hype has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}