Electric brain stimulation gains ground - transcranial

[soccertese]

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article...nd-3994638.php

[shetawk]

Wonder whether machine is similar to the Fisher Wallace Stimulator?

[michael7733]

I purchased a Cranial Electro Stimulator several years ago and tried it for several months with some positive results, but I quit using it , becauseI didn't know if it was doing damage to my brain. Reading this article has caused me to reconsider and give it another go...thanks.

michael

[Conductor71]

Originally Posted by soccertese

http://www.sfgate.com/health/article...nd-3994638.php

I think there is something to this. Clinical benefit with electrical stimulation whether through electro convulsive therapy to milder forms like Pico-Tesla magnetic cranial stimulation have shown clinical benefit to PWP for over a decade. There is a treatment currently in clinical trial known as Pico-Tesla Transrcranial Magnetic Stimulation specifically designed as a PD treatment. Like DBS, it has the potential for letting us rely less on meds but is obviously much less invasive. It is interesting to note that one of the few modes of massage therapy PWP respond to is cranial sacral massage.

I also wonder if this could reflect what Charcot noted in the 19th century that his PD patients got symptomatic relief from train rides - he went so far as to create a therapeutic vibrating chair.

Anyway this seems promising...thanks Soccertese!

[reverett123]

Reuben Sandyk is someone whom we all need to know about. He is (was?) either a quack or a genius, depending on your point of view. He bucked authority until they finally managed to get a temporary suspension of his medical license - for "poor" record keeping! Disgusted, he immigrated to Israel.

If you go to PubMed and search"Sandyk + electromagnetic" you will get 95 hits. If you just search "Sandyk" you will get 560 hits from 1980 to 1999. Do the math and you will realize that the man was turning out an average of 28 papers per year or about one every two weeks! And all focused on PD or MS, etc. The first one (1980) is on the weird paralysis that Laura and I have discussed and the last (1999) is on PD, yawning, stretching, and electromagnetic fields. It is just amazing.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=sandyk

-Rick

[reverett123]

You don't need a nuclear reactor to do your own experiments with this technology. (Someone wake Bob up. He won't want to miss this. )

Just go down to your local pawn shop and get yourself a pair of old time stereo speakers and the associated electronics. Shouldn't run you more than $20 or so. Take them home and lay them on the floor where you can put your head between them. They make music by rapidly moving air as the cones respond to pulsing electromagnetic fields. If you space them about three inches from each ear you will be in the micro-tesla range. Now, find that dusty old LP with "InnaGaDaVida" on it....

Note that this won't work with those wimpy little digital headphones. We are talking eight ohms, people!

[GregD]

Originally Posted by reverett123

You don't need a nuclear reactor to do your own experiments with this technology. (Someone wake Bob up. He won't want to miss this. )

Just go down to your local pawn shop and get yourself a pair of old time stereo speakers and the associated electronics. Shouldn't run you more than $20 or so. Take them home and lay them on the floor where you can put your head between them. They make music by rapidly moving air as the cones respond to pulsing electromagnetic fields. If you space them about three inches from each ear you will be in the micro-tesla range. Now, find that dusty old LP with "InnaGaDaVida" on it....

Note that this won't work with those wimpy little digital headphones. We are talking eight ohms, people!

Why can I see people all across the world laying on the floor with their head between two speakers and "InnaGaDaVida" playing loudly?

[madamlash]

I had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Sandyk. He was treating PD patients in New York for years. As a California resident, I was selfishly working with Dr. Sandyk to open a practice in California. I found him to be an extremely devoted researcher whose treatments seemed to work. I saw him as a modern day Royal Rife. We could all benefit by reading up on Rife and Sandyk. They did no harm and possibly were on the track to some valuable treatments. Interesting that they both got run out of town on a rail... tends to discourage the kind of novel thinking that might bring about better treatments.
May I throw out a wild curve here...
http://www.shaktitechnology.com/god_helmet.htm

[shetawk]

Originally Posted by reverett123

Reuben Sandyk is someone whom we all need to know about. He is (was?) either a quack or a genius, depending on your point of view. He bucked authority until they finally managed to get a temporary suspension of his medical license - for "poor" record keeping! Disgusted, he immigrated to Israel.

If you go to PubMed and search"Sandyk + electromagnetic" you will get 95 hits. If you just search "Sandyk" you will get 560 hits from 1980 to 1999. Do the math and you will realize that the man was turning out an average of 28 papers per year or about one every two weeks! And all focused on PD or MS, etc. The first one (1980) is on the weird paralysis that Laura and I have discussed and the last (1999) is on PD, yawning, stretching, and electromagnetic fields. It is just amazing.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=sandyk

-Rick

Rick, thank you for taking the time to send us this info.
I'll be busy with it for weeks. Lynn[

[reverett123]

A little more on Sandyk that I came across. He was a very young man (b. 1951). The following is from a health newsletter about 2004-
"can't help but think that mood and other cognitive factors might have improved in the Neurology study if the sessions had been two or more times each week instead of only one, because previous research has clearly shown that exercise can help relieve depression.

A New York doctor, Dr Reuven Sandyk, believes that many multiple sclerosis (MS) problems may be associated with calcification of the pineal gland, which contains the brain's highest concentration of serotonin, the neurotransmitter that helps regulate our sense of wellbeing. Dr. Sandyk theorises that the pineal calcification may contribute to multiple sclerosis symptoms such as fatigue, depression, sleep disorders and carbohydrate craving.

In addition to exercise, Dr. Sandyk recommends these natural ways to prompt the body to produce more serotonin:

Try to spend a few minutes in the sun each day. Even twenty minutes may make a big difference.
Increase your intake of food sources of L-tryptophan, an essential amino acid that is a precursor of serotonin. These foods include sunflower seeds, bananas, turkey, nuts and corn.
Supplements that may promote the production of serotonin include biotin, magnesium, and vitamins B-1, B- 3, B-6 and B-12."

I don't know about you but I would take him over any neuro that I have yet to deal with.

And from a 2002 issue of the Douglas Report
http://douglassreport.com/2002/11/12...-ms-treatment/

And a relevent patent from 1995-
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5470846.html