Medical experts have formulated a new way to manage clinical and seasonal depression.
While Christmas is the jolliest time of the year for many people, it is also a season for some to sink deeper into depression or start feeling the blues. In America, for instance, although there are already 16 million people who suffer from depression, the number even soars at Christmastime, according to data.
Although it was thought in the past that chemical imbalance was the culprit for depression, psychiatrist Dr. Steven Levine has revealed that it may not be the case as suggested by a recent research.
“Instead, there is damage that happens in the brain. You lose the number and function and quality of connections between important areas of the brain, and research on the medicine called Ketamine is actually showing us that it’s possible to reverse that damage much more quickly than we’ve been able to do in the past with older medicines,” Levine said.
Levine went to explain that the new way to treat depression, neurotherapy, focuses on the use of medicines like Ketamine, which can be administered intravenously. As compared to other depression drugs that are taken orally and take months before their effect can be felt, Ketamine can make a patient feel significantly better just within hours after receiving the treatment.
However, it is not only Ketamine that may effectively treat…
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