Alternative Treatments of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Alternative Treatments of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment

Author: James Lake MD

Publisher: James Lake

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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This book is offered as a practical resource on safe, effective and affordable alternative treatments of dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). If you or a loved one are struggling with Alzheimer’s disease (or another type of dementia) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) this book provides valuable information about non-medication alternatives including lifestyle changes such as exercise and nutrition, herbals and other natural supplements, meditation and mind-body practices and many others. This book is written to give you the maximum amount of information in the least amount of time. From the contents you can instantly navigate to sections that will help you: • Understand dementia better • Take inventory of your symptoms • Identify treatments that make sense for you based on the research evidence • Learn about alternative treatments of dementia and mild cognitive impairment • Develop a customized treatment plan that is right for you • Re-evaluate your treatment plan and make changes if your initial plan doesn’t work If you are a mental health professional this book provides concise, jargon-free summaries of alternative treatments of dementia and mild cognitive impairment. An appendix with links to valuable internet resources is included to help you find quality brands of natural supplements and important safety information. This book is part of a series on alternative and integrative treatments of mental health problems. Other books in the series cover: · Alcohol and drug abuse · Anxiety · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) · Bipolar disorder · Depression · Insomnia · Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) · Schizophrenia

An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care
An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care

Author: James H. Lake

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 3030152855

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This crucial volume provides a concise overview of the conceptual foundations and clinical methods underlying the rapidly emerging subspecialty of integrative mental healthcare. It discusses methods for guiding practitioners to individualized integrative strategies that address unique symptoms and circumstances for each patient and includes practical clinical techniques for developing interventions addressed at wellness, prevention, and treatment. Included among the overview: Meeting the challenges of mental illness through integrative mental health care. Evolving paradigms and their impact on mental health care Models of consciousness: How they shape understandings of normal mental functioning and mental illness Foundations of methodology in integrative mental health care Treatment planning in integrative mental health care The future of mental health care A New Paradigm for Integrative Mental Healthcare is relevant and timely for the increasing numbers of patients seeking integrative and alternative care for depressed mood, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other mental health problems such as fatigue and chronic pain. “Patients are crying out for a more integrative approach, and this exemplary book provides the template for achieving such a vision.” -Jerome Sarris, MHSc, PhD, ND “For most conventionally trained clinicians the challenge is not “does CAM work?” but “how do I integrate CAM into my clinical practice?” Lake’s comprehensive approach answers this central question, enabling the clinician to plan truly integrative and effective care for the mind and body.” -Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH

Integrative Mental Health Care
Integrative Mental Health Care

Author: James Lake MD

Publisher: James Lake

Published: 2015-07-30

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13:

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This book is the first in a series on alternative and integrative treatments in mental health care. The book provides a general introduction to essential concepts and methods you can use to develop a treatment plan addressing many common mental health problems. The other books in the series cover the following mental health problems: · Alcohol and drug abuse · Anxiety · Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) · Bipolar disorder · Dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) · Insomnia · Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) · Schizophrenia If you are currently struggling with a mental health problem and taking a medication that isn’t helping, experiencing adverse effects, or you simply can’t afford to continue taking a medication that is working the books in this series provide practical information about non-medication alternatives that will help you feel and function better such as herbals, vitamins and other natural supplements, whole body approaches, meditation and mind-body practices, and energy therapies. If you are a mental health professional the books in this series provide concise, jargon-free summaries of research evidence for a variety of non-medication treatments you can refer to when advising clients about safe, effective approaches for treating many common mental health problems. An appendix with links to valuable internet resources is included to help you find quality brands of natural supplements and important safety information.

Handbook of Mental Health and Aging
Handbook of Mental Health and Aging

Author: Nathan Hantke

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-04-11

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0128004932

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The Handbook of Mental Health and Aging, Third Edition provides a foundational background for practitioners and researchers to understand mental health care in older adults as presented by leading experts in the field. Wherever possible, chapters integrate research into clinical practice. The book opens with conceptual factors, such as the epidemiology of mental health disorders in aging and cultural factors that impact mental health. The book transitions into neurobiological-based topics such as biomarkers, age-related structural changes in the brain, and current models of accelerated aging in mental health. Clinical topics include dementia, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, mood disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, sleep disorders, and substance abuse. The book closes with current and future trends in geriatric mental health, including the brain functional connectome, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), technology-based interventions, and treatment innovations. - Identifies factors influencing mental health in older adults - Includes biological, sociological, and psychological factors - Reviews epidemiology of different mental health disorders - Supplies separate chapters on grief, schizophrenia, mood, anxiety, and sleep disorders - Discusses biomarkers and genetics of mental health and aging - Provides assessment and treatment approaches

Finally Focused
Finally Focused

Author: James Greenblatt, M.D.

Publisher: Harmony

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0451496604

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Discover the ADHD solution for your child with this holistic, evidence-based, and customizable approach to alleviating unwanted symptoms without relying on medication. “A clear, effective, and science-based program that gives you all the building blocks to treat ADHD naturally and effectively.”—Daniel G. Amen, M.D., founder of Amen Clinics and New York Times bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life ADHD is not a discipline problem. It is a medical condition with a range of possible underlying causes unique to each person. Dr. James Greenblatt has seen thousands of children and adults struggling with the symptoms of ADHD—hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness, and often irritability and combativeness. To really heal, the ADHD child needs personalized treatment to correct the biologic imbalances that affect the brain and trigger symptoms. Rather than simply prescribing medication, Dr. Greenblatt tailors remedies to his ADHD patients’ individual needs, detecting and treating the underlying causes of the disorder. Finally Focused provides a comprehensive solution to the ADHD patient’s unique biochemical imbalances using proven natural and medical methods to easily treat problems such as nutritional deficiencies or excesses, dysbiosis (a microbial imbalance inside the body), sleeping difficulties, and food allergies—all of which surprisingly can cause or worsen the symptoms of ADHD. Dr. Greenblatt’s effective Plus-Minus Healing Plan allows parents to understand the reasons behind their child’s symptoms and provides customizable tools to eliminate them. Adults with ADHD can do the same. And if conventional medication is still necessary, this integrative approach will minimize or even eliminate troublesome side effects. With Dr. Greenblatt’s expert advice, millions of children and adults with ADHD will finally get the help they need to achieve true wellness.

White Matter Dementia
White Matter Dementia

Author: Christopher M. Filley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1107035414

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Presenting the novel concept of white matter dementia, this unique book offers hope for a better understanding and treatment of dementia.

Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care
Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care

Author: James H. Lake

Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub

Published: 2007-04-02

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1585626392

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The widespread use of nonconventional treatments, or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and the increasing evidence supporting their therapeutic benefits call for a concerted scientific effort to integrate treatments that work into mainstream medicines. Answering that call is the groundbreaking Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care, a concise, practical reference that reviews the many CAM approaches used in North America and Europe to treat -- or self-treat -- mental health problems, and the history and rationale for a variety of CAM treatments, including the risks and benefits of their integration into mainstream mental health care. Two dozen contributors with both conventional and nonconventional expertise present current information about safe, effective mental health treatments -- including herbals and other natural products, stress management, homeopathy, Ayurveda, and traditional Chinese medicine -- that have not yet been fully examined or endorsed by the institutions of conventional biomedicine. This book: Covers background issues, including conceptual and historical foundations, emerging ideas and trends, safety issues, potential drug interactions and adverse effects, and medical-legal issues pertaining to use of nonconventional treatments in mental health care. Reviews the evidence and offers practical clinical guidelines for the most widely used nonconventional treatments. Twelve chapters cover specific nonconventional modalities or alternative professional systems of medicine currently used to treat mental illness, addressing historical uses of the specified modality, significant recent research findings, unresolved safety issues, and evidence supporting use of the specified approach in common psychiatric disorders, from major depressive and bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and generalized anxiety disorder to obsessive-compulsive disorder, dementia, and sleep and substance abuse disorders. Practical clinical applications of complementary and alternative approaches are discussed throughout the book. Closes with three appendixes and a subject and author index. Appendix A ranks evidence for the various treatment modalities by major psychiatric disorder and is cross-referenced with the material in Part II. Appendix B lists important Web sites, textbooks, professional associations, and other resources. Appendix C contains a glossary of key terms used in complementary and alternative medicine. Written for both conventionally and nonconventionally trained mental health care professionals, Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care provides both an ideal reference for clinicians whose patients inquire about the uses of many CAM therapies and a critical, balanced review of the nonconventional modalities most widely used in Western countries to treat mental or emotional problems.

Cognitive Training
Cognitive Training

Author: Tilo Strobach

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 3319426621

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This book brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review the current knowledge regarding the effectiveness of training interventions designed to improve cognitive functions in different target populations. There is substantial evidence that cognitive and physical training can improve cognitive performance, but these benefits seem to vary as a function of the type and the intensity of interventions and the way training-induced gains are measured and analyzed. This book further fulfills the need for clarification of the mechanisms underlying cognitive and neural changes occurring after training. This book offers a comprehensive overview of empirical findings and methodological approaches of cognitive training research in different cognitive domains (memory, executive functions, etc.), types of training (working memory training, video game training, physical training, etc.), age groups (from children to young and older adults), target populations (children with developmental disorders, aging workers, MCI patients etc.), settings (laboratory-based studies, applied studies in clinical and educational settings), and methodological approaches (behavioral studies, neuroscientific studies). Chapters feature theoretical models that describe the mechanisms underlying training-induced cognitive and neural changes. Cognitive Training: An Overview of Features and Applications will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, students, and professors in the fields of psychology and neuroscience.

Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild Cognitive Impairment

Author: Ronald C. Petersen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-01-09

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0198028741

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What are the boundary zones between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD)? Are many elderly people whom we regard as normal actually in the early stages of AD? Alzheimer's disease does not develop overnight; the early phases may last for years or even decades. Recently, clinical investigators have identified a transitional condition between normal aging and and very early Alzheimer's disease that they have called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI. This term typically refers to memory impairment beyond what one would expect in individuals of a given age whose other abilities to function in daily life are well preserved. Persons who meet the criteria for mild cognitive impairment have an increased risk of progressing to Alzheimer's disease in the near future. Though many questions about this condition and its underlying neuropathology remain open, full clinical trials are currently underway worldwide aimed at preventing the progression from MCI to Alzheimer's disease. This book addresses the spectrum of issues involved in mild cognitive impairment, and includes chapters on clinical studies, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, biological markers, diagnostic approaches, and treatment. It is intended for clinicians, researchers, and students interested in aging and cognition, among them neurologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, clinical psychologists, and neuropsychologists.

Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging
Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging

Author: Helen Lavretsky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 0199380880

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Complementary and Integrative Therapies for Mental Health and Aging provides an up-to-date overview of integrative medicine that clinicians, researchers, and caregivers will require in order to address the major mental and physical disorders of aging. The chapters herein will increase clinicians' familiarity with the most recent research findings, and broaden their understanding of the use of these interventions in clinical practice. The discussion of the data is provided in easy-to-use format covering different fields of integrative medicine, and is written by an international group of leaders and researchers in their respective areas of expertise. This volume can be used for training by students of integrative medicine and gerontology, and individual chapters can be used as on-the-go references on a particular topic. Putting this work into a wider context, volume editors Helen Lavretsky, Martha Sajatovic, and Charles Reynolds III also provide a necessary framework for clinicians and public policy makers to understand the necessity of pursuing complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine for aging adults.