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Depression Reduction, and Enhancement of SSRI Performance

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

Acupuncture is effective for the treatment of depression. Guangzhou First People’s Hospital (affiliated with Guangzhou Medical University) researchers compared SSRI (serotonin reuptake inhibitor) monotherapy with SSRI plus electroacupuncture therapy. The data driven results determined that the combined therapy increases the rate of positive patient outcomes. The integrated therapy group received the identical SSRI medication (escitalopram) […]

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Acupuncture Outperforms Medication for the Treatment of Insomnia

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Researchers find acupuncture more effective for the relief of insomnia than estazolam, a benzodiazepine pharmaceutical drug. Using Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) scores as a basis of comparison, acupuncture outperformed estazolam for the improvement of “sleep quality, efficiency disturbance and daytime dysfunction.” The researchers note that the acupuncture protocol used to achieve the treatment

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Acupuncture Helps Dementia Patient Memory and Cognition

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture alleviates dementia more effectively than conventional drug therapy according to researchers at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology. Published in the Journal of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, their research demonstrates that acupuncture is both safe and effective for the treatment of vascular dementia. Acupuncture achieved a 90% total effective rate when using

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Preventing Depression after Medication Cessation

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research, Staying Healthy / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Researchers find acupuncture effective in both the short and long-term for improving positive patient outcomes for patients ceasing antidepressant medication intake. The total effective rate, short-term withdrawal syndrome rate, and long-term relapse rates improve significantly with the implementation of acupuncture into patient management. Acupuncture alleviates depression and prevents relapses for patients withdrawing from antidepressant

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Acupuncture Treats Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Acupuncture, Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture alleviates chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Research published in the Guangxi Medical Journal finds acupuncture effective for the relief of fatigue, depression, and other symptoms of CFS. Chronic fatigue syndrome is characterized by severe fatigue that does not improve with rest. Additional signs and symptoms include memory loss, cognitive impairment, sore throat, lymph node

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Acupuncture Plus Herbs Alleviate Depression

Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Acupuncture plus herbs alleviates depression. Funing County People’s Hospital researchers conducted a randomized clinical trial comparing the efficacy of acupuncture plus herbs with medication therapy. The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapy group receiving acupuncture plus herbal medicine had a 93.3% total effective rate. The pharmaceutical medication group achieved a 70% total effective rate. Sixty

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Mindfulness Meditation Instructions – Basic Practice

Mind & Spirit / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] The Basic Practice Try to keep your mind (but not your eyes) on the abdomen. You will thereby come to know the movements of rising and falling of it. If these movements are not clear to you in the beginning, then place both hands on the abdomen to feel these rising and falling movements.

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Intro to Meditation

Mind & Spirit / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] This is an introduction to the method of meditation I am teaching at the moment. I am using the traditional word ‘yogi’ for meditator, and have included a few vocabulary words in Pali, the ancient language in which these meditation instructions were originally taught. This will be a continuing series. This is a adapted

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Meditation Improves Decision Making

Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of meditation to improve cognitive performance, emotional balance, and well-being. As a consequence, research into the psychological effects and neural mechanisms of meditation has been accumulating. Whether and how meditation affects decision making is not yet clear. Here, we review

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Mindfulness Treats Depression

Mind & Spirit, Research / Laith Naayem

[retweet][facebook] Depression is not only the most common mental illness, it’s also one of the most tenacious. Up to 80 percent of people who experience a major depressive episode may relapse. Drugs may lose their effectiveness over time, if they work at all. But a growing body of research is pointing to an intervention that

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