Ketamine Assisted Therapy, as a tool, has been proven to help significantly with the treatment of several forms of mental health and addiction including, but not limited to, depression, PTSD, and alcohol addiction.

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*The use of ketamine and other psychedelics promote structural and functional neuroplasticity in the prefrontal cortex. (Oxley, M., & Prashad, S., MD).*

 

By increasing neuroplasticity, it allows your brain to change neuropathways, and make new connections. Ketamine works on the glutamate receptors in your brain, which no other drug does.

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*The burst of glutamate is believed to be involved in the strengthening and formation of new neuronal connections, which is how Ketamine works for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD and OCD. (Oxley, M. MD, & Prashad, S. MD).*

 

"This is a game changer," says John Krystal, MD, chief psychiatrist at Yale Medicine, and one of the pioneers of ketamine research in the country. The drug works differently than those used previously, he notes, calling ketamine "the anti-medication" medication. "With most medications, like valium, the anti-anxiety effect you get only lasts when it is in your system. When the valium goes away, you can get rebound anxiety. When you take ketamine, it triggers reactions in your cortex that enable brain connections to regrow. It's the reaction to ketamine, not the presence of ketamine in the body that constitutes its effects," he says. 

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"Recent data suggests that ketamine might be the most important breakthrough in antidepressant treatment in decades," -Thomas Insel, MD, Former Director of National Institute of Mental Health.