Electromagnetic Radiation can Eliminate Resistance to Medications in Severely Depressed (Kunaal Gupta)

Indian researchers have been very promising results of experiments with the hat that through seven magnets sends electromagnetic pulses across the patient's skull. The Rays resets the receptors that were previously blocked, so the medicine is working again.

With magnetic hat represent a future treatment which shall take a half hour a day and can be done in the comfort of home on the couch.

Risk of, chronic depression

"About 30% of patients suffering from severe depression are resistant to medical treatment. And it can actually give them a chronic depression," according to experts. The problem is that the brain's receptors become oversaturated of medicine. This means that one can not treat. But the problem solver magnetic hat with electromagnetism. When power is applied to the seven magnets occurs electromagnetic pulse, which was down to the cellular level affect brain receptors.

Patients with depression who were treated with the helmet, it got significantly better. Their depression fell 20 steps of the so-called Hamilton-scale. It is the scale that is used to specify a numerical value for how severe a patient's depression. For the control group, who received the helmet on, but was not aware that there was no power to the magnets, decreased the degree of depression five steps.

Inspired by electroshock

In the 1990s, experiments with electric shocks, patients with severe psychosis that way again became susceptible to their medication. The patient had general anesthesia during the electro-shock, and the positive effect only lasted for about two months.

"The patients were all a kind of dry helmet on his head. The helmet seven coils create an electromagnetic field of the skull when you put power to the helmet. The magnetic field will go in and affect the impulses in the brain's nerve center," explains Per Bech.

The new magnethats treatment called PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic fields) which in a sense is a further development of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Unlike TMS, which can cause some side effects, such as headaches, have PEMF therapy in the first study not given them. And that's some of the things you in Hillingdon will test in some dose-response studies to begin in the autumn.

Back to life

Magnetic hat is developed in collaboration with Professor Steen Dissing from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen. He is working to make the hat more comfortable to wear, so patients in the future may have a helmet at home.

"If you get sick today, and ends with resistance to medication or therapy, it is an admission the next step. It's hard for yourself and your family, like a prolonged hospitalization also costly to society, for example if you lose your work in progress, " says experts.

In view of the good results, the researchers will now investigate whether magnetic hat can completely eliminate the need for medication. The next step is after the analysis of the trial, various approvals and additional testing, so some years before the expected magnetic hat to become widely available.

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Electrical and Magnetic Brain Stimulation (Kunaal Gupta)

Transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial stimulation to direct currents are the main methods of non-invasive stimulation of the nervous system, able to modulate, even so prolonged, neuronal excitability of potential use in the treatment of patients suffering from stroke, depression and chronic pain. Deep brain stimulation represents the main method for invasive stimulation for the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease like motor cortex, dystonia, pain, epilepsy, unilateral spatial neglect, neuromodulation etc.

Electrical stimulation of the brain has been and is still used to reveal the function of certain brain areas in experimental animals. In humans, after the first pioneering efforts of traumatic brain stimulation through breaches of the skull, electrical stimulation of the brain during neurosurgical procedures helped to identify the function of various parts of the human central nervous system and still allows surgeons to develop functional maps of brain and avoid harm while performing important areas such as speech and movement.

A long history

The use of electrical and magnetic stimulation techniques to modulate the activity of the central nervous system has been known since ancient times: in 43 to 48 BC, Scribonius Largus observed that the application of a torpedo, fish capable of producing intense electrical currents. On the head of a patient with headache caused a sudden and transient alteration of consciousness with improvement in pain. These observations were confirmed by Pliny the Elder and Claudius Galen. '11th century. the Arab physician Ibn-Sidah used an electric fish to treat epilepsy.

In Italy, in the 18th century. Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta gave rise to an intense discussion on the biological effects of electric currents, opening the door to the use of electrical currents in the medical field. Giovanni Aldini and several other doctors observed by the early nineteenth century the clinical effects of different types of electrical stimulation with respect to a multiplicity of disorders, which by order all that century as 'electric age' of medicine.

Then, in 1896 in Paris, the French physician Jacques-Ars?ne d'Arsonval reported that an intense alternating magnetic field could produce the perception of light flashes (phosphenes). From these early attempts to apply electric currents and magnetic study of the human nervous system are born neurostimulation techniques today.

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: An Effective Tool in Addiction Treatment (Gorav Gupta)

Thousands of cases of substance abuse and alcoholism come to notice every year across the world, access and prolonged use of alcohol or drugs become fatal in many cases. Fortunately, health science has found medications and holistic ways to treat addiction. The treatment goes long as per the severity. It includes medications, personal development and cognitive behaviour therapy. Only medications cannot treat addiction as a diseased mind pushes you to become addicted again. CBT is one of the finest treatments for both alcoholism and drug abuse.

It has been practiced for years and the results have been impressive. In other words, the success rate of the therapy for addiction treatment is remarkable. Cognitive behaviour therapy works on a person's behaviour by keeping unhealthy thought patterns at bay and increasing positive thoughts. CBT involves collaboration between the client and therapist, they work together to determine the goals of therapy. It is an educational process in that the therapist teaches the client how to challenge and change maladaptive thought processes and reactions and develop more adaptive ones in order to reach his or her goals.

It is correct that people may not able to change their circumstances, but they can change how they think about them. This is how the CBT therapists consistently working on the addicted behaviour pattern. They teach how to recognize situations in which they could relapse and how to cope with these situations intelligently and boldly.

How Long Does CBT Take?

It is tough to tell how long cognitive behaviour therapy can go but it is usually over in 12 to 16 sessions. It is a goal-oriented educational process that may take more time until the patient is confident that he/she can cope with the craving independently.

Key Components of CBT

To effectively treat substance abuse and alcoholism, there are two prime components of CBT:

Functional Analysis

Both the therapist and the patients work together, by deep analysis of the reasons for addiction. Before and after the use of substance or alcohol, situation is analysed in order to determine the risks leading to craving.

Skills Training

Inculcating healthier habits and skills is the prime aim of CBT at the time. It works on educating the addicts to make changes in the way they think about their drug abuse or alcohol.

The Salient Benefits of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

A Crucial Network of Support

Therapy provides great network support to depend on while recovering. The support works as strength to fight a relapse by providing positive encouragement.

Self-Esteem Enhancement

This is a first big thing that an addict loses that can make addiction severe. Under CBT, improvement of self-esteem has been found. Constant reinforcing of self-worth encourages thinking about the value of self-esteem and how to regain it.

Learning to Cope with Peer Pressure

Addicts are usually vulnerable; peer pressure can turn them to addiction again. But CBT complete session helps them to resist pressure from peers.

Positive Thoughts and Fast Recovery

Major changes in the thought process are noticed after the successful cognitive behaviour therapy program. It ultimately provides fast recovery and encourages health living.

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