PsychEd Episode 34: Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression with Dr. Sandhya Prashad

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode covers ketamine for treatment-resistant depression (TRD) with Dr. Sandhya Prashad, a</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">psychiatrist and the founder and medical director of Houston Ketamine Therapeutics. She has extensive expertise using ketamine and is one of the most experienced ketamine psychiatrists in the United States, with her clinical practice focusing on TRD and incorporating transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), sometimes in conjunction with ketamine. Dr. Prashad is also a founding member and current president of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians (ASKP), a non-profit organization created to advocate for the safe use of ketamine for mental illness and pain disorders and to expand access to ketamine therapy.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re also experimenting with something new for this episode — providing a transcript of the entire interview! The transcript can be found at</span> <a href= "https://www.psychedpodcast.org/transcripts/ketamine"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">psychedpodcast.org/transcripts/ketamine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’d love to hear your feedback as listeners on this as a feature, including whether it’s something you’d be interested in seeing for other episodes moving forward!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The learning objectives for this episode are as follows:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By the end of this episode, you should be able to…</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Describe ketamine and how it came to be used in the field of psychiatry.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Develop an appreciation for benefits and potential harms assoc