By Alice Klein Certain brain circuits may underlie the symptoms of anorexia nervosaALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Some women with severe anorexia have returned to a healthy weight and feel less anxious and depressed after having electrical devices implanted into their brains, according to a small study. But more research is needed before the treatment can… Read More »
Patients are for severely malnourished upon entering treatment. Basically, the body cannot properly restart the metabolism process. Evidence-based research has shown meditation to be beneficial in the treatment of anxiety, addiction and treatment management and as an options to psychotherapy. The evidence is treatment for using psychotherapy to improve chances of recovery in adults. Remedial… Read More »
Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Petersen, 29, said… Read More »