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What you need to know about ketamine-assisted therapy

Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers

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The Psychonaut Effect of Ketamine on Depression

The first pivotal IV ketamine for depression study was done by a Berman and colleagues, I think at Yale. And then, and then replicated by an NIMH group showing like a 70% response rate really quickly. Did you know the term psychonaut came from ketamine? Oh, actually. This guy, I can't say his name, Ernst Jungerwich. Do you know German pronunciation? Unfortunately. The term means sailors of the soul because of ketamine's psychedelic or psychonautical explorers using it to explore their psyches back in 1970s.

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