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This review summarizes drug treatments for adult anxiety disorders (panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias). It says well-known drugs such as SSRIs and SNRIs are commonly used and approved for some anxiety disorders. The authors found that research into truly new medications is limited, many…
This paper reviews research from the last two decades showing ketamine can be a safe, fast-acting, and sustained antidepressant that helps some people with treatment-resistant depression. The authors describe several possible ways ketamine works: blocking NMDA receptors (a brain receptor), boosting new synapse growth and plasticity, reducing inflammation, creating high-entropy…
