Esketamine in depression

Esketamine represents one of the most significant developments in biological psychiatry in recent decades.

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Need to know

Treatment-resistant depression remains one of the greatest challenges in contemporary psychiatry. Treatment-resistant depression is commonly defined as an inadequate response to trials of at least two antidepressants of adequate dose and duration from different pharmacological classes.1