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Ayurveda and COVID-19
Published in Srijan Goswami, Chiranjeeb Dey, COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, 2022
The one factor that separates human beings from other life forms is their free will or freedom to choose. It is common knowledge that the wrong use of free will in choosing junk food, addictions, and negative emotions and actions harm the individual. As we delve deeper into Ayurveda and Indian philosophy, we realize that the same free will can be used to enhance health. Patanjali Yogasutra is the technology of enhancing the health of the individual by empowering the individual to enhance his health at the physical, physiological, mental, intellectual, and spiritual levels. We can choose health over disease by harnessing our free will. With its advanced techniques of yogasanas, Pranayama, and meditation, Patanjali Yogasutra offers a proactive healthcare solution. We thus have a healthcare system that empowers the individual to proactively participate in enhancing health. There is, however, another aspect of health that merits serious consideration, namely, mental health. Whenever we think of mental health, we think about stress, depression, and psychological and psychiatric disorders. By default, we think of mental diseases instead of mental health. Eastern philosophy has never separated the mind from the body, and has, hence, thought about mental health as a continuum of physical health and life itself. The aim is to harness the mind and intellect of the individual to raise him to the next stage of evolution, from where he is to where he can yet be.
The Treatment of the Special Forms of Mental Disease
Published in Francis X. Dercum, Rest, Suggestion, 2019
Clinical Grouping of Mental Diseases. Delirium, Confusion and Stupor; Melancholia, Mania, and Circular Insanity; The Heboid-Paranoid Group. The Neurasthenic-neuropathic Insanities; Simple Dementia; Paresis; Insanities of Intoxication and the Drug Habits.
The Twentieth Century
Published in Arturo Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2019
With the greater complexities of modern life and the increased tension of living-conditions, especially in cities, it is not surprising that there should be a considerable increase in mental diseases, a topic already considered in the section on Neurology and Psychiatry. In the United States, for instance, where this increase has attracted the most attention, the number of mental cases in public and private hospitals is said to have risen from 83 per hundred thousand of the population in 1904, to 245 in 1923; in New York State, in institutions surveyed between 1909 and 1935, from 65 to 86 per hundred thousand. When such modifying factors as the better and earlier recognition of mental disease and more adequate institutional facilities are discounted, however, such figures need not be taken as indicating an alarming increase. The great majority of cases are due to six conditions: dementia præcox, manic-depressive insanity, alcoholism, paresis, arteriosclerotic psychosis, and senile dementia. Fortunately, the first four of these are already showing promising responses to recently introduced forms of treatment.
The efficacy of neurofeedback for alcohol use disorders – a systematic review
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2023
NF therapy is now being used to treat a variety of mental diseases, with promising results. In recent years, the influence of EEG frequency biofeedback as a therapy technique for psychiatric problems has been extensively studied. NF improves self-efficacy and has a positive impact on the brain’s self-control capabilities. Furthermore, increased alpha activity is thought to assist the patient in remaining calm and better coping with stress. Participants are likely to acquire increased self-confidence and minimise emotional stress, feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and fear as a result of increasing control over physiological processes (Dalkner et al. 2017). Vernon et al. (2003) conducted a study in which volunteers participated in a series of NF sessions. They found that individuals who received NF improved their recall from 70.6 to 81.6%, whereas those who did not get NF only improved their recall from 72.5 to 75.1%. We reviewed the existing literature and included studies that reported the effectiveness of NF interventions on AUD. The purpose of this study is to explore if NF training may help patients with AUDs avoid relapse, reduce anxiety and despair, and minimise alcohol cravings and consumption. A total of 20 studies, mostly RCTs, using a number of NF methods for patients with AUDs were included. The non-pharmacological interventions include EEG NF training (11 studies), rtfMRI-NF (3 studies), tDCS (2 studies), TMS (2 studies), DBS (1 study) and TBS (1 study).
CD 4+, CD 8+ and CD 19+cell surface antigen and abnormal mitochondria ultrastructure of peripheral blood P-type atypical lymphocytes in patients with schizophrenia
Published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2023
Ruihuan Xu, Shijun Song, Caihong Liu, Ruibin Luo, Wen Gu, Xia Luo, Jiajian Wang, Litao Yang, Ribing Chen, Huixiong Chen, Yanbin Wan, Xiongxin Hong, Jianxia Chen, Xing Wan
A total of 25 patients with schizophrenia were recruited from the Department of Psychiatry of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital. Patients were diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-Ⅴ). The patients with schizophrenia did not have any brain or physical disorders, autoimmune diseases, viral and bacterial infections. They also did take psychoactive substances, abuse drugs, or used antibiotics during the previous three months. The patients with schizophrenia were first-episode patients. Twenty-five age- and gender-matched patients with other mental diseases were recruited from the Department of Psychiatry of Shenzhen Kangning Hospital during the same period after negatively screening for schizophrenia. In addition, 25 healthy individuals were also recruited from hospital medical staff. All patients and control individuals were screened using physical examination and clinical laboratory tests. All three cohorts were obtained with the Second Affiliated Hospital approval at the Chinese University of Hong Kang, Shenzhen. Informed consent was obtained from all participants or their family members after the purpose of the study had been explained.
Physical and mental fatigue in people with non-communicable chronic diseases
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Anouk W. Vaes, Yvonne M. J. Goërtz, Maarten van Herck, Rosanne J. H. C. G. Beijers, Martijn van Beers, Chris Burtin, Daisy J. A. Janssen, Annemie M. W. J. Schols, Martijn A. Spruit
This study corroborates earlier findings that fatigue is commonly reported across different non-communicable chronic diseases [4,5,8,9]. Indeed, more than two-thirds of participants reported to experience severe fatigue, whilst only a small proportion of the participants reported normal fatigue levels. Where clinical research in non-communicable chronic diseases mainly focussed on the physical experience of fatigue (i.e. lack of energy and decreased physical performance) [9,14], we demonstrated that both physical and mental fatigue are common in participants with non-communicable chronic diseases. In line with previous studies, we demonstrated that fatigue scores were significantly higher in females, younger participants (below the age of 60) and participants living alone [4,5]. Interestingly, people with mental diseases also reported high levels of physical fatigue, whilst in the primarily physical diseases (e.g. participants with rheumatoid arthritis, neuromuscular diseases or burns) mental fatigue was also frequently present.