Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds 

"Elliot Luby, M.D., Endowed Lectureship"

Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Time:1-2pm

Venue: Zoom conference

Speaker:

John H. Krystal, M.D.

Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Professor of Translational Research

Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Chair, Dept. of Psychiatry

Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation

Yale University School of Medicine

Professor of Psychology

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Yale-New Haven Hospital

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TOPIC:

"Rapid-Acting Antidepressants:

New Treatments, New Hope, 

and Insights into the Brain"

Objectives:

1.  Discuss the limitations of traditional antidepressants for treatment-resistant forms of depression.

2.  Present the logic of testing ketamine for depression and the results of

clinical trials.

3.  Review theories related to the mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effects of ketamine in animals and patients.