MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: FIFTY PERCENT OF VETERANS WHO PRACTICED THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE FOR THREE MONTHS NO LONGER MET CRITERIA FOR PTSD COMPARED TO ONLY 10 PERCENT OF CONTROLS. MEDITATING VETERANS ALSO SHOWED SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS IN SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY, AND SLEEP DIFFICULTIES. THIS FIGURE SHOW THE UNADJUSTED MEAN CHANGE IN PTSD SYMPTOMS,...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Targeted neuromodulation tailored to individual patients’ distinctive symptoms is an increasingly common way of correcting misfiring brain circuits in people with epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease. Now, scientists at UC San Francisco’s Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders have demonstrated a novel personalized neuromodulation approach that—at least...
