but the best option depends on the individual’s situation. If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction, you may wonder what treatment options or therapies you can go for to treat your addiction problems. If so, you have come to the right place. This...
Although we have a number of new medications and therapies, most of these are from the same general drug classes or psychotherapy models that I used in residency, e.g., dopamine antagonists for psychosis or cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety. Most of these were based on serendipitous ...
Participants had to rate the effectiveness of 24 different therapies for depression, schizophrenia, delusional disorder and anorexia nervosa. The highest and lowest rated item of the first questionnaire replicated earlier findings. Participants' efficacy ratings of the different therapies did differ markedly...
Depersonalization treatment includes medication, like SSRIs; intensive psychological counseling, like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT); and some other less traditional therapies, like hypnosis. The type of depersonalization treatment that is appropriate for a particular patient depends upon the etiology of...
Coming to the traditional individual psychotherapies, psychoanalysis, client centred and Gestalt therapies deal with neurotic disorders. More recently other methods have come into existence; such as behaviour modification, bio feedback and chemical treatment, etc. These recent therapeutic procedures seem to...
With continued research into herbal therapies and acupuncture, they have been found to be effective in relieving a variety of mental illnesses such as insomnia, depression and cognitive disorders. For example, Xiao Chai Hu decoction may alleviate patients' anxiety symptoms by decreasing the levels of...
VistaGen’s new drug: An oral antidepressant minus bad side-effects. Building on ineffective old-school antidepressants.
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depressionObjective: To investigate the effects of two different hormone therapies on menopausal symptoms, depression and anxiety scores in women with symptomatic natural menopause. Methods: 183 patients completed the study. Group I patients were treated with transdermal estradiol and ...
Notably, BDNF in the HC produces effects that are opposite to those induced in the mesolimbic pathway in behavioral models of depression; therefore, caution should be exerted in developing therapies for depression having a single effect on BDNF all over the brain. Moreover, BDNF signaling is very...