What patients say
Read them where they were written
Our patients have written about their experience with us on Google and on Facebook. We would rather you read what they wrote where they wrote it, in their own words, on a site we do not control and cannot edit.
Why there are no quotations on this page
A review belongs to the person who wrote it, and it stays where they chose to put it.
A page of quotations selected by us would also be a page curated by us. We would be deciding which experiences you get to see, and you would have no way of knowing what we left out. The links above show you all of it, including anything critical. That is the point of sending you there rather than quoting to you here.
How to read them
Every review is one person’s experience, and one person’s experience does not predict yours. A good review is not evidence that the treatment will work for you, and a bad one is not evidence that it will not.
What can tell you something is a count of everyone, not a selection. Here is ours.
We looked back at sixty months of our patients treated for treatment-resistant depression, eighty-seven people in all. Counting everyone who started, 79 percent responded and 51 percent reached remission. Nine of the eighty-seven did not finish treatment.
Response means a score on a validated depression scale that fell by at least half from where it started. Remission means it fell into the range the scale treats as minimal symptoms — a higher bar, and always the smaller of the two numbers. More on how to read these figures.
That review was retrospective and open label. It had no control group, it was not collected or analyzed as research, and it has not been peer reviewed. It is not a rate you should expect for yourself. Some people get no benefit at all, and we cannot tell in advance who they will be.
What we commit to
Our commitment is to the process, not to the outcome. We cannot predict how any individual will respond, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Your history, your medications and your prior treatment are read before you are accepted, before you travel and before you pay for a course of infusions.
Including when the answer is no. If your condition is one where ketamine is unlikely to help, we say so and explain why rather than treating you and hoping.
I personally evaluate and select each patient at the Ketamine Research Institute, I administer each RESTORE infusion myself, and I see one patient at a time, so you have my full attention throughout.
What we do, and what we do not do
The Ketamine Research Institute provides ketamine-based infusion therapy and trains licensed clinicians to deliver it. We do not offer other services.
Our protocols draw on work in pharmacology, pharmacogenomics and pain medicine. They were built from ketamine concentrations measured in plasma during infusions rather than adapted from a published paper.
The methods used here are taught to other physicians through classroom instruction and supervised clinical training in a working infusion suite.
Talk to us
Now you know about us. Tell us about you.
Tell us what you have already tried and we will tell you honestly whether this is likely to help.
The RESTORE method Are you a candidate? Contact us
RESTORE — ketamine therapy, done precisely.