Biological Psychiatry
Volume 66, Issue 5 , Pages 522-526 , 1 September 2009

Effects of Intravenous Ketamine on Explicit and Implicit Measures of Suicidality in Treatment-Resistant Depression

  • Rebecca B. Price

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • Department of Psychology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Rebecca B. Price, M.S., Rutgers University, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029
    • ,
  • Matthew K. Nock

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • ,
  • Dennis S. Charney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • Department of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
    • ,
  • Sanjay J. Mathew

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York

Received 4 February 2009 ,Revised 14 April 2009 ,Accepted 28 April 2009.

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PII: S0006-3223(09)00519-8

doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.04.029

Biological Psychiatry
Volume 66, Issue 5 , Pages 522-526 , 1 September 2009

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