While CES came to the U.S. as “electrosleep” and its intent was to put patients to sleep when the current was turned on, that simply did not occur irrespective of the manipulation of the stimulus parameters. Along with Kratzenstein’s observation in 1743 that putting...
Device: 100 Hz, 2 mS, 0.4 - 1.3 mA, electrodes from the forehead to mastoids For this single blind study, 28 male heroin addicts, between 18 and 60 years old, undergoing methadone detoxification were selected on the basis of having severe anxiety as measured by the...
Device: 30 - 40 Hz, 2 mS, 2 mA, forehead to occipital fossa electrodes 20 hospitalized pts suffering from long-lasting insomnia with anxiety, obsessive and compulsive reactions, morphine and barbiturate addiction and involutional depression were given 2 - 4 CES...
Magora, Florella, Beller, A., Aladjemoff, L., Magora, A., and Tannenbaum, J. Observations on electrically induced sleep in man. British Journal of Anesthesiology. 37:480 491, 1965. Device: 100 Hz, 10 - 100 Hz, 1 - 10 mS, 0.4 - 5 mA, square pulses, cathodes over orbits...
Device: Diastim: 350 Hz, 0.7 mS, 1 - 1.2 mA, rectangular monophasic pulses, cathodes over orbits, anodes over mastoids 21 psychiatric inpatients suffering major depressive disorders according to DSM III-R criteria were divided into 2 groups for this double-blind...
Device, 100 Hz, 1mS, 0.5 - 1.2 mA, orbit to mastoid electrodes. 22 neurotic and personality disorder pts (including 2 inpatients) with anxiety, depression, and insomnia (20 females, 2 males 26 - 63 years old, mean = 43.1 years) were divided into active (N = 11), or...
Device: Electrodorn I, electrodes on forehead and neck 10 pts with objectively established insomnia were randomly selected from 40 volunteers solicited by newspaper ads. The subjects spent 3 initial nights in a sleep lab to establish baseline measurements, and then...
Many patients benefit from improving sleep hygiene and as a treatment for insomnia. Others may improve using a sleep phase changes or treating the underlying problem such as sleep apnea, medical conditions, alcohol abuse, etc. For many others, recent pharmacologic...