Sentences with phrase «use similar therapies»

The benefits she personally experienced excited her to use similar therapies for her patients.

Although optogenetics is not yet possible in humans, Dr. Paz believes we may be able to use similar therapies like deep brain stimulation to target a specific area in real time to stop a seizure.

Not exact matches

Birds, for example, can regenerate hair cells — and lately researchers have found a few similar effects in mammals that used gene and drug therapy.

There are women who post here who have had similar experiences, and they have shared how they use drug and other therapy to manage their fear and anxiety so they can give birth to subsequent children in hospital where it is safer, even though the thought terrifies them.

The finding suggests that other AAVs used for a gene therapy targeting the brain or spinal cord might be improved by having the same or a similar set of amino acids.

Previous studies also demonstrate that moderate hypo - fractionated radiation therapy (HRT), consisting of daily treatment for one month using a larger dose per treatment, provides a similar low risk of recurrence, and may even be lower with HRT than CRT.

If future similar studies can further expand and eventually provide a brain - based predictive best - therapy option for individual patients, it would dramatically decrease unnecessary exposure of patients to ineffective therapies and decrease the duration and magnitude of pain suffering and opioid use, Baliki and Apkarian said.

Using electricity to affect the brain makes tms sound similar to electroconvulsive therapy, alias electroshock therapy.

«Hypothetically, you could imagine a similar therapy being used to dampen the memory of love,» says Fisher.

DePuy combed the industry for already approved therapies with similar properties — and found a soft - tissue reinforcement patch already used in hernia repairs made from bovine heart tissue.

For the purpose of this replacement therapy, the patient's blood is purified using filters, in a process similar to dialysis, and then it is reinjected into the patient via an infusion drip; alternatively, it is replaced with a blood substitute such as albumin.

To prevent this decline in Area X, White's research team used methods similar to human gene therapy to insert a version of FoxP2 in male zebra finches.

Using an extinction protocol, which is similar to exposure - based therapy, the researchers repeatedly presented the tone without the shock to test whether the mice could unlearn the association between these two events and would stop freezing in response to the tone.

This association was similar across subgroups of women, including by age, smoking status, hypertension, postmenopausal hormone therapy, and oral contraceptive use.

As the central nervous system is also a target of AAV vectors, Hélène Puccio and Patrick Aubourg's teams are investigating whether a similar approach using gene therapy could be as effective for the spinal cord and cerebellum as it is for the heart.

It uses a virus already approved by the Food & Drug Administration for other genetic therapies in the eye; it delivers an ion channel gene similar to one normally found in humans, unlike others that employ genes from other species; and it can easily be reversed or adjusted by supplying new chemical photoswitches.

The results, published Jan. 3 in the journal Depression and Anxiety, showed that the group using Project: EVO demonstrated specific cognitive benefits (such as attention) compared to the behavioral therapy, and saw similar improvements in mood and self - reported function.

«Our case studies showed similar survival with the use of stereotactic radiation therapy compared with surgery,» said lead author Dr. Raquibul Hannan, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

These findings, which will be published online Aug. 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help identify important brain circuits involved in stroke recovery and usher in new clinical therapies for stroke, including the placement of electrical brain - stimulating devices similar to those used for treating Parkinson's disease, chronic pain and epilepsy.

Using three applications of a similar therapy in a 2012 study, the researchers effectively eliminated asthma in afflicted mice, within only eight weeks.

Our definition is similar to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) definition of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP): «Medicinal product for human use that is a gene therapy medicinal product, a somatic cell therapy medicinal product or tissue engineered product» (EMA ATTherapy Medicinal Product (ATMP): «Medicinal product for human use that is a gene therapy medicinal product, a somatic cell therapy medicinal product or tissue engineered product» (EMA ATtherapy medicinal product, a somatic cell therapy medicinal product or tissue engineered product» (EMA ATtherapy medicinal product or tissue engineered product» (EMA ATMP Reg.

Similar approaches could be used to study the molecular basis of response to a given therapy, as well as mechanisms of resistance to treatment.

And doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London recently reported using a similar gene - editing technique called TALENs, which also recognizes and cuts precise DNA sequences, to engineer immune cells for a therapy that may have cured two infants of leukemia.

Theoretically, this is similar to how gene therapy is used to treat cancer, but with important improvements.

«We anticipate,» says Dr. Chou, «that this research will provide important pre-clinical data to support clinical trials using DAC and similar drugs combined with immune therapies targeting antigens like NY - ESO - 1 to treat advanced colorectal cancer and potentially other common cancers.»

Studies in hyperactive rats have shown that stimulant therapy decreases hyperactivity as well as the appetite for alcohol and other substances, according to Faraone, which suggest that stimulants may act on ADHD symptoms and substance use in similar ways.

The SMILE study revealed a 20 % decrease in agitation in dementia by using humour therapy, progress similar to the more common usage of anti-psychotic meds.

so for any of us who are hypothyroid, a certain amount of time in the land of hyper might speed up healing in general, similar to how the body uses a fever to fight an infection, or how sunbathing, bathing in hot springs or being in saunas is contextually therapeutic — it is a all a form of heat therapy, whether exogenous or not.

Light therapy (or phototherapy) consists of using a special light box which produces similar effects to natural light, thus triggering your brain to release chemicals to help balance your mood.

This is the option that poses the least amount of side - effects as the hormones produced and used with bioidentical hormone therapy are made in such a way that they are very similar to the natural hormones already found within the woman's body.

Reiki is used to achieve similar effects of traditional massage therapy; to relieve stress and pain, and to improve the symptoms of various health conditions.

In the 1960s, chiropractic physician Dr. George Goodheart used a similar type of trigger point therapy in his office to correct muscle imbalances.

Apartment Therapy wrote this great blog post about home organization using the Berenstain Bears, which inspired me to write a similar post, but about writing.

«Sometimes we prescribe by rote, without thinking about whether antibiotics are needed, what drug should be used, how long it should be used, whether there are nonantibiotic alternatives, whether antibiotic therapy has a chance of working without addressing an underlying problem, and similar aspects,» Weese said.

The ASPCA supports the use of humanely trained and professionally evaluated domestic animals to participate with their guardians / handlers in animal - assisted therapy applications and in social visits to hospitals, nursing homes and similar facilities.

Most therapy animals are used for similar reasons.

Using similar techniques as human physical therapy, the veterinary world has adapted and modified these methods to benefit our animal companions.

For this reason, pets used for therapy in assisted living communities and similar situations should be screened for Campylobacter by fecal culture before exposure to people with suppressed immunity.

In her pet play therapy work, Dr. Van Fleet uses what dogs do as a metaphor to help children learn by example, recognizing mistakes in behavior similar to their own and much more.

As part of that, I have become involved in using new technology to see if cold laser therapy will aid in healing turtles affected by being cold - stunned, when they are exposed to cold water temperatures for a long time, similar to hypothermia.

However, HIV status can be revealed indirectly through disclosure of HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) or similar HIV treatment drug use.

In her pet play therapy work, Dr. Van Fleet uses what dogs do as a metaphor to help children learn by example, recognizing mistakes in behavior similar to their own and much more.

Using a similar approach — the filial play therapy model — that helped families traumatized by Hurricane Katrina, the researchers worked with six parents living at a homeless shelter in the Fox Valley.

The conclusion of the two meta - analyses and the systematic reviews, and the over-all conclusion of the most recent scholarly work on SFBT, is that Solution - Focused Brief Therapy is an effective approach to the treatment of psychological problems, with effect sizes similar to other evidenced - based approaches, such as CBT and IPT, but that these effects are found in fewer average sessions, and using an approach style that is more benign (Gingerich et al, 2012; Trepper & Franklin, 2012).

As such, the worksheets for this type of therapy are often not exclusive to REBT, but can also be used for clients in CBT and other similar forms of therapy.

The interventions / activities inside the book are very similar to what I use while doing Gottman therapy with clients.

In a similar, more figurative sense, sand tray therapy uses sand to create a physical, symbolic model of an individual's inner worlds and exclusive realities — or, perhaps more appropriately, their personal, psychological infrastructure.

If you are already working with couples using a schema therapy approach similar to what is described in the guidelines, you may qualify for the «Grandparenting» option.

I'm comfortable with its use — due to my background and training in similar modalities — and have found the skills to be valuable for those who have a difficult time with more traditional therapy approaches.