"Rapid-Acting Antidepressants: New Treatments, New Hope, and Insights into the Brain"
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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.