Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Pharmacodynamic Interactions Between Ketamine and Psychiatric Medications Used in the Treatment of Depression: A Systematic Review

Jolien K. E. Veraart, Sanne Y. Smith-Apeldoorn, Iris M Bakker, Berber A E Visser, Jeanine Kamphuis, Robert A. Schoevers, et al.

Current literature shows that benzodiazepines and probably lamotrigine reduce ketamine's treatment outcome, which should be taken into account when considering ketamine treatment. There is evidence for an interaction between ketamine and clozapine, haloperidol, and risperidone. Due to small sample sizes, different subject groups and various outcome parameters, the evidence is…

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