Mina Kheirkhah, Allison C Nugent, Alicia A Livinski, Lucinda Neely, Sara C Johnson, Ioline D Henter, Shahaboddin Dabaghi Varnosfaderani, Rebecca B Price, Nadia Hejazi, Mani Yavi, Hamidreza Jamalabadi, Nooshin Javaheripour, Martin Walter, Carlos A Zarate
Music and ketamine are both known to affect therapeutic outcomes, but few studies have investigated their co-administration. This scoping review describes the existing literature on the joint use of music and ketamine-or esketamine (the S(+) enantiomer of ketamine)-in humans. The review considers that extant studies have explored the intersection of ketamine/esketamine and music in healthy volunteers and in patients of various age groups, at different dosages, through different treatment processes, and have varied the sequence of playing music relative to ketamine/esketamine administration...
April 30, 2024: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews