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John Krystal - Ketamine for depression #BAP2024

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Show Notes

Professor John Krystal will be giving a Guest Lecture at the 2024 British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting in Birmingham on 24th July 2024. His talk is entitled: Linking depression pathophysiology to the mechanism of action of ketamine and “next generation” treatments.

In this 18-minute podcast, André Tomlin from The Mental Elf asks John Krystal how he first got into ketamine research and where we are now with this promising intervention for people with severe and enduring depression.

John Krystal, MD is Professor of Translational Research and Professor of Psychiatry, of Neuroscience, and of Psychology; Co-Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Chair, Psychiatry; Chief of Psychiatry, Yale New Haven Hospital; Director: NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Division, VA National Center for PTSD https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/john-krystal/

The British Association for Psychopharmacology 2024 Summer Meeting will take place in Birmingham on 21st - 24th July 2024 at the University of Birmingham: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2024

The Mental Elf will be covering it live on Twitter and you can follow along using the hashtag #BAP2024 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BAP2024&src=typed_query&f=live Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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