PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Re...

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This short episode covers the basics of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.Hosts: Eric Yu (MS3)Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)Dr. Shaoyuan Wang (PGY5)Audio Editing: Dr. Angad Singh (PGY2)References:1. Park, ...  Show more

Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.This episode covers Working with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Emergency Department with Dr. Bruce Fage, a psychiatrist in Toronto working in emergency and acute care psychiatry, and an ...  Show more

Dr. Mike Dow is healing severe mental disorders with ketamine. The certified psychedelic ketamine-assisted psychotherapist advocates for the drug that is more effective than standard antidepressants. Today, Dr. Dow shares the history of ketamine and how it has been developed to h ...  Show more

In this episode, I explain how ketamine causes rewiring of brain circuits and dissociative states to relieve symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I explain how ketamine impacts both the brain’s glutamate and its endogenous opioid pathways, which toget ...  Show more

For years, ketamine has been thought of mostly as a horse tranquilizer — or a street drug that puts you in a scary-sounding K-hole. But now, we’re hearing reports that it could be almost a miracle medicine, treating stubborn depression and other mental illnesses. So how good is i ...  Show more

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