Therapy

Share on PinterestMeditation-relaxation therapy may help people who experience sleep paralysis.A new study in the journal Frontiers in Neurology reports that around 20% of people worldwide experience sleep paralysis. As the lead study authors explain, finding oneself mentally awake as the body’s voluntary muscles remain asleep can be a terrifying experience; sleep paralysis can bring…

By Jessica Hamzelou The Ishihara colour perception testB Christopher / Alamy A shock of electricity to the temples can be a powerful, last-resort treatment for some people who have mental health conditions that don’t respond to other treatments. But it can have surprising side effects – it seems to have improved the colour vision of…

Doctors say an experimental treatment using blood plasma does work and helped save the life of a coronavirus patient near death.The male patient had been on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was only getting worse.The hospital had just received its first batch of blood plasma from a recovered coronavirus…

Mind | Analysis 24 April 2020 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Health workers may have increased mental health issuesIndependent Photo Agency Srl/Alamy Live News The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be bad for our mental health, as many people are now experiencing the effects of social isolation, financial distress and the potential loss of loved ones.…

Doctors at a Worcester hospital say they saved a coronavirus patient in the nick of time, thanks to an experimental treatment involving blood plasma.The vital signs of the COVID-19 patient, who was on a ventilator at UMass Memorial Medical Center, were getting terribly worse last Saturday."He was essentially approaching near maximal settings for the ventilator…