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What's ketamine psychedelic therapy like? Reviewing 5 years of real-world practice data
Michael DeMarco, PhD, Psychedelic Practitioner & Consultant
Psychedelic Therapy Research & News Spotlights
News & Research on ketamine and other psychedelic medicines for pain, addiction, and mental health
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¿Cómo es la terapia con ketamina? Repasando 5 años de viajes
Michael DeMarco, PhD
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Spotlight: How Ketamine Acts on the Brain - Microtubules & An Orch-Or Perspective
Ketamine has a psychedelic effect and an anesthetic modulation of brain microtubules. How this mechanism works, according to the principles of the Orchestrated Objective Reduction, shared by the Penrose-Hameroff (Orch-OR) consciousness model.
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Spotlight: Ketamine Integration Chaplaincy: A Novel Spiritual Care Approach to Psychedelic Integration (2025)
"Although ketamine's mode of action is distinct from classic psychedelics, patients frequently report similar alterations in consciousness, including experiences described as spiritual or religious"
Spotlight: Ketamine Research Lit Review (2022-Current)
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Spotlight: Therapeutic Ketamine
Getting the most out of your prescription ketamine
Spotlight: Addressing the Gap: Real-World Evidence of Technology-Enabled Coaching Services for Mental Health (2025)
By redefining care and leveraging technology, coaching may be a scalable treatment solution.
Spotlight: "Telehealth-supported ketamine for depression and anxiety: A systematic review (2026)
"Telehealth-supported sublingual racemic ketamine was associated with symptom improvements in selected populations"
Spotlight: NRx Pharmaceuticals Notes Presentation Of IV Ketamine Efficacy Versus Nasal Esketamine Efficacy At American Society Of Clinical Psychopharmacology (2026)
"The authors concluded that in routine clinical care, both IV ketamine and intranasal esketamine rapidly improve depression symptoms with IV ketamine showing higher remission and response rates than intranasal esketamine."
Spotlight: HHS & VA Announce Bold, Comprehensive Partnership to Advance Rapid-Acting Mental Health Treatments for Veterans
Health & Human Services & The Veterans Administration join the Food and Drug Administration in new announcements surrounding psychedelics for mental health
Spotlight: Psychedelic Drugs: Considerations for Clinical Investigations Guidance for Industry
American government agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) releases nonbinding recommendations to psychedelic drug manufacturers
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Spotlight: Jeffrey Becker - The Neurobiology Underlying Transcendence Induced by Ketamine and the Psychedelics (2026)
While psychedelics selectively amplify activity in specific neural circuits, ketamine acts on a receptor found widely throughout the brain. This raises a key question: how can a drug targeting such a common receptor produce such distinct and powerful subjective effects?
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Spotlight: Yale presents “New Insights into the Neural Mechanisms of NMDA Receptor Antagonists Driving Rapid-Acting Antidepressant Effects” (Cichon, 2026)
"ketamine works on depression within minutes of infusion, lasting multiple days, if not weeks... amazing that it was classified as an anesthetic... twice as good as SSRI standards of care... leads to new formation of synapse, underlying sustaining mechanisms..."
Spotlight: Documentary "The Eternal Song"
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Ketamine Induces Apoptosis and Inhibits Proliferation in HT-29 Colorectal Cancer Cells (Korkmaz, et al, 2026)
"findings suggest that ketamine exhibits potential anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects on HT-29 colorectal cancer cells in vitro."
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Spotlight: N,N-dimethyltryptamine elicits antidepressant and anxiolytic effects in helpless mice: a comparative study with S-ketamine (da Sousa-Silva, et al, 2026)
DMT compared with ketamine variant, esketamine in mice.
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Feature: Social media companies found liable in addiction cases
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