Is Ketamine Effective for Depression?

Ketamine is also effective in relieving some symptoms of depression. This was discovered because ketamine has also has pain relieving effects. Scientists were exploring it in animal models of pain and also happened to notice that it impacted mood. In fact, there is a lot of research groups here in Ottawa that look at this where it as it turns out, if you give humans low dose of ketamine IV, it has almost an instantaneous reversal of depressive symptoms.