Understanding ketamine therapy through science, safety, and care.
Ketalux is an independent educational platform on ketamine therapy, neuroscience-informed mental health, and emerging research. We write with medical responsibility - never hype.
Foundations
A clear primer on history, mechanisms, and clinical context.
Depression, anxiety, PTSD, OCD, trauma, and chronic pain.
Side effects, contraindications, supervision, and who should avoid treatment.
IV, IM, intranasal, and lozenges - explained without sales pitch.
Neuroplasticity, ongoing studies, and what the evidence actually says.
Thoughtful, non-sensational writing on lived experience and clinical insight.
Where ketamine appears in current research
Each condition page explains standard care first, then summarizes where ketamine fits in the current evidence - including limits and unanswered questions.
An evidence-based overview of major depressive disorder, conventional treatments, and where ketamine fits in the current research landscape.
What current research says about anxiety disorders, established therapies, and the limited but evolving evidence around ketamine.
An overview of post-traumatic stress disorder, established trauma-focused therapies, and the developing evidence on ketamine-assisted approaches.
How clinicians and researchers think about trauma beyond formal PTSD, and the role of emerging therapies in broader trauma care.
An overview of obsessive-compulsive disorder, gold-standard therapies, and where ketamine sits in the current evidence base.
A look at chronic pain conditions, the role of multidisciplinary care, and how ketamine appears in current pain research.
An educational overview of fibromyalgia, current treatment approaches, and the limited research on ketamine in selected chronic pain syndromes.
An educational summary of research on rapid-acting interventions for acute suicidal ideation, including ketamine studies conducted in controlled settings.
An educational overview of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), how it is defined, and the current evidence on ketamine and esketamine as adjunctive options.
An educational overview of mental health conditions commonly studied in veterans, including PTSD, depression, and moral injury, and the developing research on ketamine.
An educational overview of burnout as a syndrome of chronic occupational stress, evidence-based approaches, and why ketamine is not an appropriate treatment.
An educational overview of emotional exhaustion, its overlap with depression and burnout, and the evidence-based ways to restore capacity.
An overview of perinatal depression, standard treatments, and where research on ketamine and the novel agent brexanolone fits in.
Where research on ketamine and related agents sits in the treatment of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder.
Where ketamine research sits in addiction treatment, including alcohol use disorder and cocaine use disorder — and the complications of treating with a controlled substance.
Why bipolar disorder requires special caution in ketamine therapy, and what current research suggests about the bipolar depressive phase.
Where ketamine fits in the treatment of refractory chronic migraine and other chronic headache disorders.
What Ketalux is - and what it isn't
- - An educational resource on mental wellness and ketamine research.
- - Written with restraint, sourced from peer-reviewed literature where possible.
- - Not a clinic, treatment program, prescriber, or affiliate funnel.
- - Not a substitute for evaluation by a licensed clinician.