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Monthly Archive for December, 2006

Neuroscience & Neurology

Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation: A Non-Drug Neuromedical Treatment

December 25, 2006 | By Eileen Jones, RN, MPH | 10 Comments

Cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES), (also known as "electrosleep", "transcranial electrotherapy" and by many other names), involves a form of treatment that sends low intensity microcurrent (under 1 milliampere) to the brain. [1] CES devices function differently from other biomedical electronics, such as deep brain stimulating electrodes (which prevent seizures and hand tremors) [2] and heart pacemakers. While those instruments require surgical implantation, CES operates non-invasively. Designed for home use, the devices deliver current to the brain via a hand held machine to electrodes attached on or behind the ears.

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Neuroscience & Neurology

Hypertension Drugs Affect Alzheimer’s

December 21, 2006 | By Larry Leonard | No Comments

Early studies are reporting the use of some drugs for high blood pressure may be protecting against Alzheimer's disease, in animal studies according to Gulio Maria Pasinetti, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

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Psychology & Psychiatry

Antipsychotic Drug Development off Course?

December 20, 2006 | By Larry Leonard | 1 Comment

Antipsychotic drug development may be off course. Since its accidental discovery during 1951 (Shen 1999), 15 to 40 drugs have been used to treat antipsychotic symptoms. Further developement in drug treatment was on hold until the introduction of Clozapine treatment in the United States in 1990. Discontinuation of antipsychotic medications is common because they don't work in all patients and because of adverse effects, including metabolic side effects, weight gain and involuntary movements (Tandon 2006).

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Living with a Brain Disorder

Brian Thompson’s Struggle with ADHD

December 15, 2006 | By Shaheen E Lakhan, MD, PhD, MEd, MS | 7 Comments

I am 48 years old and one of eight children, and born and raised in Baltimore, MD. I have been divorced once and have four children from three marriages. My story is kind of difficult to explain, but I think worth the time. My first marriage was to a woman who had a five-year-old daughter who I adopted. We had two boys during that time and were divorced in 1989. In 1992, I met my current wife Suzanne who was widowed at 29. She was pregnant at the time of her husband’s death and we now have our youngest son who is 15. We have a great family, and frankly, the highlight of my crazy life.

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