CES has an excellent safety record. Published literature in the U.S. and abroad, reports virtually no negative side effects or major contraindications from its use. The National Research Council has deemed CES to be "a non-significant risk modality." Because the only...
Many primary care physicians are stymied and frustrated by the challenge of treating chronic pain. In particular, they face patients with bona fide pain but who also have depression, anxiety, insomnia and substance abuse. With regards to treatment interventions, they...
The Challenge of Psycho-Pharmacology As a practicing psychiatrist, I am constantly struggling with balancing purported efficacy with known risks of somatic interventions. While currently approved interventions have demonstrated efficacy relative to placebo, the rate...
Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) is the American FDA’s term for what the rest of the world calls “electrosleep.” Modern electrosleep devices originated in Russia in 1953, and arrived in the U.S. ten years later, in 1963,...
Electro-therapy got its start during the days of the Roman Empire when Greek physicians had their patients stand on electric torpedo fish as a step to improve health in the first century AD. Scribonius Largus wrote: "For any type of gout a live black torpedo should,...
Have you ever asked yourself any of the following questions: Why don't my sleep medications help me sleep anymore, or help me go to sleep when I take them? Is there anything I can use to help me sleep better without causing side effects that impact my waking life? Is...
We hear a lot about there being two different kinds of sleepers — early risers and night owls — but researchers from the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences have identified two new groups to add to the mix. And, perhaps not surprisingly, one of them...
The inflammation process is known to be at the heart of medical problems that occur throughout the body, such as heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, sinusitis, bronchitis, prostatitis, ulcerative colitis, and all...
The role of CES in reducing the inflammatory response has been implicated more recently by Black who has shown that repeated acute or chronic psychological stress may also initiate the inflammatory response when the brain utilizes the same efferent pathways to respond...
Known effectiveness of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) in mental health.1 Anxiety: 38 clinical studies of anxiety, 21 of which were double blind, showed a mean improvement of 58%, with a range of from 38% to...
