Research Review: Ketamine vs ECT for Treatment-Resistant Depression: New Insights from the ELEKT-D Trial
Dr. Weiner explores a recently published secondary analysis of a trial that compared ketamine to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment-resistant depression, finding that ECT and ketam!ne both effective long-term, with moderate to severe depression patients having faster improvement with ketamine, and very severe depression responding faster to ECT.