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...
Many medical experts say that stress is a major cause of illness in the modern world. Some estimate that as much as 90% of illness is caused by stress, and all agree that stress, if present in an ill person, can only make the problem worse. For example, the perception...
Chronic lack of sleep has a cumulative effect when it comes to disrupting your health, so you can’t skimp on sleep on weekdays, thinking you’ll “catch up” over the weekend. You need consistency. Generally speaking, adults need between six and eight hours of sleep...
