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Treating Depression: Researchers Identify Symptom Specific Targets

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As reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers have just uncovered two clusters of depressive symptoms which can respond to a specific treatment protocol. These comprise giving two different types of treatment, while patients receive TMS (transcranial magnetic brain stimulation). These findings have empowered scientists to discover more about the …

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Aromatherapy may reduce nurses’ stress – "The researchers found that participants felt significantly less stressed, anxious, fatigued and overwhelmed after wearing the aromatherapy patches. The levels of anxiety and fatigue they reported fell by 40 percent, and their stress"

Interesting way to use aromatherapy (patches attached to nurses ID). I have been researching about aromatherapy (scent – nasal, massotherapy – skin and capsules of the oil – oral), specifically Lavandula angustifolia, a species of lavender, and its effects in reducing anxiety and better sleep quality. Most studies are well …

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Researchers develop non-invasive deep brain stimulation method

Since 1997, more than 100,000 Parkinson’s Disease patients have been treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical technique that involves the implantation of ultra-thin wire electrodes. The implanted device, sometimes referred to as a ‘brain pacemaker’, delivers electrical pulses to a structure called the subthalamic nucleus, located near the …

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