Clinical Psychiatry News
As a survivor of four deployments – Operation Desert Storm; Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Iraq; and Afghanistan – as well as being a survivor of the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre, I am well acquainted with the ravages of posttraumatic stress disorder. Using...
The Washington Post
Alpha-Stim is being evaluated as one of the alternative treatments being evaluated at the Richmond, Virgina VAMC.
Saint Francis Medical Center: Weekly Health Page
Alpha-Stim is a tool used to treat various conditions from anxiety to chronic pain through electrotherapy.
Health and Wellness
I see a variety of concerns from clients seeking mental health counseling and coaching. Anxiety, insomnia, and depression are some of the most prevalent.
Ready for a Blast from the Past?
Since the beginning, Alpha-Stim has been known as a proven and effective therapy. Watch this compilation of TV news and talk shows from the early 1980s.
Stars and Stripes
When Harry Beeman began his quest earlier this year for a Purple Heart, the World War II vet had visions of a 90th birthday party where he would be pinned with the medal. That is not to be. The former gunner’s mate 1st class, who served aboard the USS Ellet in the Pacific from 1941-1945, received word just weeks before his Aug. 23 birthday that crushed any hope of receiving a Purple Heart.
Texas D.O.
Cranial electrotherapy stimualtion (CES) is a category of prescriptive medical devices using microcurrent levels of electrical stimulation delivered directly to the brain via transcutaneous electrodes for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia and depression. It is also achieving acceptance for pain management based on a growing body of research.
Health and Stress Newsletter
“I sing the body electric” wrote Walt Whitman in his 1885 Leaves of Grass,
but what was he referring to? It was obviously not the the electric current
that would later be used to provide light and radio communication. Nor was
it the electric shock from certain fish that had been known since antiquity.
Egyptian papyri from 2750 B.C. had alluded to these as the “Thunderers of
the Nile”, suggesting that they believed this force was in some way similar to
the energy in a bolt of lightning. Greek and Roman physicians later used the
shock from torpedo fish (electric rays) to treat headache and other pains.
AMERICANJails
Criminal justice professionals are becoming increasingly aware that biogical predispositions contribute to offender behavior as much as soical and psychological issues. The study presented here examines a treatment that can change the way the brain functions biologically.
CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) — Are you depressed or anxious and just can’t sleep?
Believe it or not, electricity may be the remedy. CBS 2’s Mary Kay Kleist reports on an at-home treatment that makes a
difference for some people. Several times a week, Karen Parziale uses an “electro-therapy” device at
home. She says it relieved her depression.