Psych Congress NetworkAt-Home, Sublingual Ketamine Therapy Rapidly Improves Anxiety, Depressive Symptoms

In what is thought to be the largest study to date of any type of ketamine treatment, the findings revealed that, after four sessions, 89 percent of participants reported improvement in their depression and/or anxiety symptoms. On the PHQ-9 or GAD-7 scale, 63 percent of participants saw a 50% or greater improvement. PHQ-9 remission rates were 32.6 percent and GAD-7 remission rates were 31.3 percent. Furthermore, at the end of the four weeks, 62 percent of patients who had suicidal ideation prior to treatment reported no suicidal ideation.