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What is Clinical Psychiatry?

Clinical psychiatry is the scientific and medical study and application of psychiatry for the purposes of understanding, treating, preventing, and relieving psychiatric-based distress, disease, emotional or other psychiatric dysfunction and to promote health and well-being.

Clinical psychology is sometimes confused with psychiatry, which has similar goals (e.g. the alleviation of mental distress), but is unique in that psychiatrists are physicians (medical doctors) with medical degrees that focus on medication-based solutions, although some also provide psychotherapeutic services, as well. 

In practice, clinical psychologists often work in multidisciplinary teams with other professionals such as psychiatrists, occupational therapists, social workers, and licensed counselors to bring a multimodal approach to complex patient problems.

What is "Nerve Stimulation" and how does Nerve Stimulation help patients?

There are various types of nerve stimulation, each with its own protocols for treating various ailments and conditions.

One type of nerve stimulation is for treating people with moderate to severe depression.  Depression can be a very serious and life-threatening condition that may require life-long management and treatment.  Treating depression may sometimes have a lower than hoped for success rate and estimates indicate that more than half of all patients with depression have relapses. Anti-depressant drugs and medication may lessen symptoms but may not relieve all of the symptoms in some patients.

Seizures also do not always respond to treatment. Some patients have tried two or more medications and still have seizures, as well as side effects from the drugs, both of which affect their quality of life.

Vagus nerve stimulators are a small medial device that are implanted under the skin of the chest.  A very small wire runs to the patient's vagus nerve, which is then stimulated by the device, in the same manner a pacemaker works.  In general, patients with depression normally experience an improvement in alertness, energy. memory, their depression improves as a result. better mood. These quality-of-life benefits improve over time. 

Vagus nerve stimulators, in general, have proven to be a safe and effective way to control seizures and lessen the severity of depression.   Because Vagus nerve stimulators are used, drugs are usually not required, and there are no side effects that are associated with anti-depressant or seizure-control medications.

See:  www.DepressionHelp.net  for more information about depression.

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