Johnny
1st April 2014, 18:59
I do not know if this here is really new or it only is new here in Denmark, but I could not find anything about it in a search, so here it is, if anybody should be interested. There has been spoken a lot about it in the last week (here in Denmark :) )
Translated with Google translator:
Expert in depression: We need to push the boundaries of new therapies.
More than one in four depressive patient will not benefit from the treatment they can be offered. Hence the need for new thinking, says expert.
Nearly one-fifth have at some point in life depression.
(I do not know if that is right. According to some newspapers, then we are a sick nation, 200.000 suffers of this disease, 350.000 suffers of that disease and so on)
But research shows that between 20 and 30 percent of depressed patients do not benefit from the treatments we have today as psychotherapy, electroshock and drugs. And many are decidedly resistant to antidepressants.
Therefore, there is a great need for alternative therapies, says Poul Videbech, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Aarhus and Consultant at Aarhus University Hospital.
- Our treatments are in fact not very satisfactory, and therefore there is an urgent need that we are trying to push the boundaries of what we can offer other forms of treatment, says Poul Videbech.
Successful awake therapy
Poul Videbech are even involved in an attempt at Aarhus University Hospital, where patients hospitalized with severe depression, you awake therapy, which basically consists in that they must stay awake 36 hours in a row three times a week.
- It may seem very, very strange, but it seems to be working, and it is certainly worth taking advantage, says Poul Videbech.
The electromagnetic helmet.
On the other side of the Kattegat Psychiatric Centre North Zealand and Copenhagen University also started to develop a new treatment for depression.
An electromagnetic helmet is central to their treatment. Briefly put the helmet by means of electrical pulses good time in the processes that occur naturally in the brain, but that did not work so well in depressed people.
And so far the results are successful. The electromagnetic helmet has helped two thirds of patients in the trial.
- These are some results I would describe as groundbreaking, says says Birgit Straasų, Chief of Psychiatry Zealand.
It is Professor Steen Dissing employed at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Copenhagen University, who developed the helmet, and he is sure that electrotherapy is one of the new therapies that have a great future.
- If we look 10 years into the future, it will be scientifically go much more after treatment not based on medicine, he says.
source: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2014/04/01/131625.htm
Kindly regards Johnny
Translated with Google translator:
Expert in depression: We need to push the boundaries of new therapies.
More than one in four depressive patient will not benefit from the treatment they can be offered. Hence the need for new thinking, says expert.
Nearly one-fifth have at some point in life depression.
(I do not know if that is right. According to some newspapers, then we are a sick nation, 200.000 suffers of this disease, 350.000 suffers of that disease and so on)
But research shows that between 20 and 30 percent of depressed patients do not benefit from the treatments we have today as psychotherapy, electroshock and drugs. And many are decidedly resistant to antidepressants.
Therefore, there is a great need for alternative therapies, says Poul Videbech, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Aarhus and Consultant at Aarhus University Hospital.
- Our treatments are in fact not very satisfactory, and therefore there is an urgent need that we are trying to push the boundaries of what we can offer other forms of treatment, says Poul Videbech.
Successful awake therapy
Poul Videbech are even involved in an attempt at Aarhus University Hospital, where patients hospitalized with severe depression, you awake therapy, which basically consists in that they must stay awake 36 hours in a row three times a week.
- It may seem very, very strange, but it seems to be working, and it is certainly worth taking advantage, says Poul Videbech.
The electromagnetic helmet.
On the other side of the Kattegat Psychiatric Centre North Zealand and Copenhagen University also started to develop a new treatment for depression.
An electromagnetic helmet is central to their treatment. Briefly put the helmet by means of electrical pulses good time in the processes that occur naturally in the brain, but that did not work so well in depressed people.
And so far the results are successful. The electromagnetic helmet has helped two thirds of patients in the trial.
- These are some results I would describe as groundbreaking, says says Birgit Straasų, Chief of Psychiatry Zealand.
It is Professor Steen Dissing employed at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Copenhagen University, who developed the helmet, and he is sure that electrotherapy is one of the new therapies that have a great future.
- If we look 10 years into the future, it will be scientifically go much more after treatment not based on medicine, he says.
source: http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2014/04/01/131625.htm
Kindly regards Johnny