Articles Tagged ‘electromedicine’
Psychiatry & Psychology | By February 10, 2008 | By Lindsey Kay, MD | 8 Comments
Why Electroconvulsive Therapy Works
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has a bad reputation, due in part to the graphic media portrayals we see in films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and A Beautiful Mind, and probably also in part to an innate distaste for the idea of receiving electrical shocks to the brain.
Despite the popular disgust for this treatment, ECT is still used in patients with psychiatric disorders that have not responded to other therapies, most commonly major depression and bipolar disorder. Read more →
- Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation: A Non-Drug Neuromedical Treatment
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... Read more →
Friday, May 16, 2008
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Are You Depressed Because You're Introverted?
- The Difference Between Doctors and Lawyers
- The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider's Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
- Persistent Vegetative States: Legal and Political Ramifications
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Domestic Violence: Call for Primary Care Screening and Gender Issues - Part I
- Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: A Real Concern
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Democracy vs. Domestic Violence
- Cell Transplants for Parkinson’s Disease
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): No Heart for the Meds?
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
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