Crack is a highly addictive drug, but treatment and rehabilitation are available for people suffering from its use. There are two main types of treatments: medication and cognitive or behavioral therapy. As of late 2018, no medication exists to treat crack addicts, but the National Institute on ...
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If you’re dealing with a mental health condition that hasn’t responded well to traditional treatments, you may want to consider tms therapy. This treatment is very effective for various conditions, including depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This blog post will discus...
The specific treatment modalities utilized during a mental hospitalization can also impact the cost. Services such as individual therapy, group therapy, medication management, and specialized treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may have varying costs ass...
The maximum out-of-pocket is there to protect the consumer, making sure that what the insurance provider is asking them to pay is not too much. Usually, if the premium is high, the out-of-pocket limit is low. What Is Coinsurance?
How Much Is Enough? How Non-Invasive Ventilation Hourly Use Affects Survival in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) is proving to be an effective method to enhance cognitive skills and motor coordination, which makes it a precious to... J Ackrivo,J Hsu,J Hansen...
There are many tactics people use to end arguments and confrontations, most of them having to do with size. Parents, for example, seem to favor "Because I said so" as a way to put a stop to a disagreement with their children, who, after all, are much smaller than they are for...
Can I do two treatments in a day? They have to be every other day. Like how much can we mush these in together to get a full treatment session in to have the effects that we’re trying to have. So there’s a lot of methodological research being done on TMS especially, and...
There is a growing literature on the neuroplastic effects observed in the brains of patients receiving ECT. We will focus here on evidence from structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, which have been the most prominent methods. Parallel to the animal model literature, much of the res...
The negative stigma around ECT is often based on old treatments in which large doses of electricity were administered without anesthesia, leading to memory loss, bone fractures, and other harsh side effects. Electroconvulsive therapy is a much safer treatment today. While it may still cause some ...