Pychosomatic Disease And Rest Therapy

Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy ( REST )

\. This study was designed to test .the usefulness of 48 hr. of Restricted Environmental Sximillation Therapy (REST) as a treatment ;pr autistic children. In order to provide quantified objective measures for evaluating the' effects of this treatment, a'battery of, psychological tests was developed which would be useful and-practical for the assessment of these children in regular diagnostic se...

Cell Therapy in Cardiovascular Disease

  Recently, cell therapy has sparked a revolution in ischemic heart disease that will in the future help clinicians to cure patients. Earlier investigations in animal models and clinical trials have suggested that positive paracrine effects such as neoangiogenesis and anti-apoptotic can improve myocardial function. In this regard the Royan cell therapy center designed a few trials in collaborat...

REST and Stress Resistance in Ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease

P137: Stem Cell Therapy in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative brain disorder which plays an important role in neural cell destruction and as a result it causes memory loss in the patients. This disease is also the most common type of dementia which doesn’t completely respond to medical treatments so no certain cure is available. Recent studies show the advantages of using stem cells (SCs) in ...

Does the cognitive therapy of depression rest on a mistake?

Cognitive therapy for depression is common practice in today's National Health Service, yet it does not work well. Aaron Beck developed it after becoming disillusioned with the psychoanalytic theory and therapy he espoused and practised. But Beck's understanding of psychoanalysis appears to have been seriously flawed. Understood rightly, the psychoanalytic approach offers a cogent theory and th...