Neuro-hypnotherapy or EEG biofeedback for depression

The mind-body connection is prevalent in many diseases. 

What Research Says?

Cognitive hypnotherapy for major depressive disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22655331



Suggestion in the treatment of depression.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23488249/




The power of belief and expectancy in understanding and management of depression.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23488252/



Out-of-illness experience: hypnotically induced dissociation as a therapeutic 
resource in treating people with obstinate mental disorders.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19711767



Feasibility of clinical hypnosis for the treatment of Parkinson's disease: a case study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23427841



Efficacy of hypnosis-based treatment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a pilot study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23162510/



Antidepressants in the treatment of depression: the clinician and the controversy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23488250



Treating depression with antidepressants: 
drug-placebo efficacy debates limit broader considerations.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23488253



Game-based biofeedback for paediatric anxiety and depression.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2294290




Is alpha wave neurofeedback effective with randomized 
clinical trials in depression? A pilot study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21063132



A new neurofeedback protocol for depression.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21568194



Audio-biofeedback training for posture and balance in 
patients with Parkinson's disease.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21693054/?



Biofeedback therapy for symptoms of bowel dysfunction 
following surgery for colorectal cancer.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21755415/


Bowel biofeedback treatment in patients with 
multiple sclerosis and bowel symptoms.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21825891/



Biofeedback in the treatment of heart disease.
'' Preliminary data suggest that use of BFSM (biofeedback-assisted stress 
management) by heart failure patients may actually cause cellular and
molecular remodeling of the failing heart in the direction of normal. ''
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21972325

[Review] Ataxia Alternative Treatment Malaysia - C Case

C - Speech and language difficulties, short attention span, temper tantrums and ataxia in a 10 years old. 

Parents summary of ongoing treatment. 

My 10 years old boy was diagnosed as Ataxic kid (balance and co-ordination problems).
He was poor in coordination, feel easily, spoke slow, moved slow.
Some positive results gained after 20 EEG biofeedback therapy with Hiro Koo.
Today, he doesn't fall everyday, better behaved and improved in study.
I am amazed by these changes in my boy which I had been hoping for and never achieved through other conventional therapy.

- Mother of C

What is Ataxia?

Ataxia describes a lack of muscle control during voluntary movements, such as walking or picking up objects. A sign of an underlying condition, ataxia can affect movement, speech, eye movement and swallowing.

Persistent ataxia usually results from damage to your cerebellum — the part of your brain that controls muscle coordination. Many conditions can cause ataxia, including alcohol abuse, stroke, tumor, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. An inherited defective gene also can cause ataxia.

Treatment for ataxia depends on the cause. Adaptive devices, such as walkers or canes, might help you maintain your independence. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy also might help.

Ataxia Treatment

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

Ataxia has no cure. There are no medications that can specifically treat and cure the symptoms of ataxias. However, medications may ease the symptoms by treating the underlying condition that causes the ataxia.

The aim of treatment of ataxia is to improve the quality of life though patient education and provision of aids and devices to maintain self sufficiency and independence for as long as possible.

Ataxias due to underlying causes may be treated by treating these underlying causes that include stroke, a low vitamin E level or exposure to a toxic drug or chemical.

Treatment also revolves around managing the co-existing conditions such as muscle cramps, stiffness, tremor, spasticity as well as depression, anxiety, sleep disorders etc.

Ataxia is managed by a team of specialists in different fields. This is called the multi-disciplinary team.

A usual team of specialists who treat ataxias include a neurologist (one who specializes in diseases of the brain and nervous system), an ophthalmologist or eye specialist, a urologist who treats problems like urinary incontinence in these patients, a cardiologist or heart specialist who deals with cardiomyopathy in ataxia patients, a physiotherapist, a speech and language therapist, a psychologist, an occupational therapist, a social worker, diet advisor and a specialist neurology nurse.

A geneticist or a genetic counsellor may be part of the team dealing with hereditary ataxias.

Sources:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ataxia/basics/causes/con-20030428

http://www.news-medical.net/health/Ataxia-Treatment.aspx



Remark: Our client's information will be kept strictly confidential all the time. All reviews have been acknowledged and provided by past and current clients of Spectrum of Life proactive healthcare centre (Clinical Hypnotherapist Hiro Koo). Clients names have been changed to protect their identity. 

5 Genetically-linked Mental Disorders

By LARAE LABOUFF 

It turns out that bipolar disorder has a genetic link to at least four other mental illnesses: autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), major unipolar depression and schizophrenia. Since depression is part of bipolar disorder, it’s not surprising that unipolar depression might be related and any search for bipolar disorder is going to bring up schizophrenia. The others came as more of a surprise. The surprising thing is that there seems to be this same group of genes present in those of us with these mental illnesses that is responsible for these disorders and the one you end up with is dependent on how they express. Basically, roll the mental illness dice and see what comes up! Okay it’s not at all that simple, but when I first read about this, that’s what I felt like.

Let’s review. There are several potential causes of mental illness. We haven’t figured out exactly what does cause mental illness but the main theories currently involve genetics, brain structure, environment, and traumatic experience, among others.

• With genetics, it’s more likely that multiple family members will have mental illnesses.
• Imaging has shown that brain structures in those with mental illness do not function quite the same as those of the general population.
• Environment is, unfortunately, an incredibly broad category. It can stem from an uncontrollable, in-utero occurrence, to drug use or exposure later in life.
• Traumatic experience is fairly self-explanatory. It can be physical, social or psychological. An important thing to remember about trauma is that it is perceived trauma. If two people have the same experience, one may not experience the same level of trauma as the other. This doesn’t mean one person is stronger or better than the other. It’s just how the brain processes events at the time.

Back to genetics for a minute. If you have one of these psychological disorders in your genetic bloodline, you’re more likely to inherit a disorder, but it may not be the exact same disorder. It could be one of the other four. In fact, just because you have the gene doesn’t mean you will have a disorder at all! There has to be a stressor. Stressors go back to what I was talking about with environment and trauma. Basically, something has to happen in order for the gene to activate. There’s no real way to know, but I’m almost certain my stressor was the death of my grandfather. I’d had problems before that, but it really felt like everything went downhill from there.

It really isn’t just a role of the dice to see which of these disorders will present if the stressor is triggered. Pinning down the diagnosis is hard as it is. Most of the time, diagnosis for these disorders is a long process. They do have some overlapping symptoms, but they can be very few and more subtle. This link blurs the lines further.

Fortunately, (well, fortunately may not be a great word for anything related to this topic) there are correlations between the different illnesses and which ones may show up in other family members. Autism and ADHD are less likely to present than the others. However, ADHD is linked to childhood bipolar disorder. The earlier the onset of ADHD symptoms, the more severe the bipolar disorder. If bipolar disorder expresses in late childhood to adolescence, the severity of ADHD is lower.

The highest linked disorders are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, meaning if someone in your family has schizophrenia you are more likely to develop bipolar disorder than major depressive disorder. If you have major depressive disorder, your children are more likely to develop ADHD than some of the others. Schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder have the weakest link.

Research on this is still being done. Research on mental illness in general is huge. We just don’t know enough about the brain and how neuropsychology works. Findings like these genetic links are helpful. They are a step in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.

Source:

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/bipolar-laid-bare/2015/03/linked-disorders/