{"id":230060,"date":"2025-05-08T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=230060"},"modified":"2025-06-12T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:26:28","slug":"podcast-spray-away-severe-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/05\/podcast-spray-away-severe-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Spray Away Severe Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_158112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158112\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158112 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The UConn Health Pulse Podcast logo.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/HEA-048-UConnHealthPodcastLogoFY20_191206-800x1200.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UConn Health Pulse Podcast brings a variety of expertise on health topics to the general public.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A form of ketamine delivered as a nasal spray is showing effectiveness in treating severe depression. The FDA has approved esketamine for adults with treatment-resistant depression; the patient self-administers it in a supervised clinical setting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/facultydirectory.uchc.edu\/profile?profileId=Battersby-Caleb\">Dr. Caleb Battersby<\/a>, director of interventional psychiatry at UConn Health, joins the UConn Health Pulse podcast to explain how it works and why it\u2019s providing hope for patients who haven\u2019t had success with other treatments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>It can translate into people being able to kind of make lifestyle changes probably more quickly and more effectively than they do with oral medications.  <cite> &#8212 Dr. Caleb Battersby<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Listen now:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;min-width: min(100%, 430px);height: 150px\" title=\"Spray Away Severe Depression\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=jz5ee-189d9f2-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=1&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=3267a3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Caleb Battersby, UConn Health\u2019s director of interventional psychiatry, explains a treatment approach to severe depression that&#8217;s providing hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":230070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2291,1868,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-230060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-psychiatry","category-meds","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 04:29:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231794,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230060\/revisions\/231794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/230070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230060"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=230060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=230060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}