Patients with treatment-resistant depression often find themselves ping-ponging from one treatment to another in an effort to finally find relief … often to no avail. Fortunately, ketamine has become the new rising star in depression treatment, stepping in to offer almost immediate relief when the usual cast of depression medications…
Ketamine Clinics vs Ketamine Treatment at Jeff Ditzell Psychiatry Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic drug used to treat treatment resistant depression and other mental health disorders. It has been used for years on the clinical scene and has now become more of a mainstream method. So much so that you…
Dr. Jeff Ditzell went to intensive training with one of the top Anesthesiologists at the Ketamine Institute. He was trained in using ketamine to treat patients with the proper dosing and scheduling and to feel comfortable and competent in using this treatment modality. In his own psychiatry practice Dr. Ditzell…
Ketamine, a derivative of phencyclidine (PCP), is a dissociative anesthetic that has analgesic properties in sub-anaesthetic doses. Ketamine is the most potent NMDA-receptor-channel blocker available for clinical use, binding to the PCP site when the channels are in the open activated state. It also binds to a second membrane-associated site…
DEPRESSIONS NEGATIVE STIGMA Depression, along with many other mental illnesses, is attached to a negative stigma – something many people don’t like to talk about. A big part of this stigma is due to a lack of understanding and awareness of what depression is. It’s hard to understand because many…
Many people only know about Ketamine as a club drug, but its medicinal uses go back over 50 years. Now it’s being used to help with treatment resistant depression, OCD, and other issues that have been nonresponsive to other treatments, and with great success! Dr. Jeffrey Ditzell joins us…
Recent estimates show that 17.3 million American adults–7.1 percent of the adult population–had a major depressive episode in the past year, and 11 million adults experienced severe impairment as a result. Unfortunately, up to one-third of those who are treated for depression don’t respond to treatment. Ketamine infusion therapy is…