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Trial reportJournal of clinical pharmacology2026

Ketamine Dose and Duration Effects in Internalizing Disorders.

Neil McNaughton, Ben Beaglehole, Paul Glue

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Trial report in Journal of clinical pharmacology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Neil McNaughtonDepartment of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-8221
Ben BeagleholeDepartment of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9521-1745
Paul GlueDepartment of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7305-2800

Funding

Health Research Council New Zealand
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dose-response profile of racemic ketamine in internalizing disorders is poorly characterized. This was a secondary analysis of outcome responses in patients with treatment-resistant depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized and/or social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. For each disorder, they received single intramuscular doses of racemic ketamine (0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg) and a psychoactive control, using a three-way within-subject double-blind active-controlled cross-over design. Intramuscular racemic ketamine doses of 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg produced robust effects on diagnosis-appropriate outcome scales for all these internalizing disorders, compared with psychoactive controls. These effects were most obvious at 24 h after dosing and noticeably smaller at 168 h. The magnitude of change after 1 mg/kg did not differ significantly from 0.5 mg/kg at either time point, and did not differ significantly between the internalizing disorders at 24 h. When combined with other ketamine dose-response data, we propose that ketamine may have a narrow inverted-U dose-response profile (peaking in the regions of 0.5-1.0 mg/kg) in patients with internalizing disorders.

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Depressive Disorder, Treatment-ResistantKetamineObsessive-Compulsive DisorderStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticAdultCross-Over StudiesDose-Response Relationship, DrugDouble-Blind MethodFemaleGeneralized Anxiety DisorderHumansMaleMiddle AgedPhobia, SocialYoung AdultKetaminedepressiondose responsegeneralized anxiety disorderketamineobsessive‐compulsive disorderpost‐traumatic stress disordersocial anxiety disorder

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PMID42746802
PMCPMC13579490

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