Ketamine resolves woman’s lifelong stutter in landmark case
Low-dose ketamine allowed her to speak freely for the first time since childhood.
A terminally ill 60-year-old woman’s lifelong debilitating stutter disappeared after she was prescribed low-dose ketamine for depression, according to a US case report.
The unexpected effect, which began within a day of starting the drug, proved to be “life-changing” in her final month of life in hospice care, the doctors wrote in the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
