scholarly journals Art Therapy: A Complementary Treatment for Mental Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingxuan Hu ◽  
Jinhuan Zhang ◽  
Liyu Hu ◽  
Haibo Yu ◽  
Jinping Xu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Clinical Effects ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Therapy ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Conventional Tests ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
Depression Disorders

Art therapy, as a non-pharmacological medical complementary and alternative therapy, has been used as one of medical interventions with good clinical effects on mental disorders. However, systematically reviewed in detail in clinical situations is lacking. Here, we searched on PubMed for art therapy in an attempt to explore its theoretical basis, clinical applications, and future perspectives to summary its global pictures. Since drawings and paintings have been historically recognized as a useful part of therapeutic processes in art therapy, we focused on studies of art therapy which mainly includes painting and drawing as media. As a result, a total of 413 literature were identified. After carefully reading full articles, we found that art therapy has been gradually and successfully used for patients with mental disorders with positive outcomes, mainly reducing suffering from mental symptoms. These disorders mainly include depression disorders and anxiety, cognitive impairment and dementias, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and autism. These findings suggest that art therapy can not only be served as an useful therapeutic method to assist patients to open up and share their feelings, views, and experiences, but also as an auxiliary treatment for diagnosing diseases to help medical specialists obtain complementary information different from conventional tests. We humbly believe that art therapy has great potential in clinical applications on mental disorders to be further explored.

scholarly journals The Antidepressant and Cognitive Improvement Activities of the Traditional Chinese HerbCistanche

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongfang Wang ◽  
Haizhen Wang ◽  
Li Gu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Chinese Herb ◽  
Tail Suspension Test ◽  
Morris Water Maze Test ◽  
Antidepressant Effect ◽  
Spatial Learning And Memory ◽  
Multiple Systems ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Improvement

More than ten percent of people suffer from at least one episode of depression and related mental disorders in a lifetime, and depression and related mental disorders are one of the world’s greatest public health problems. A multiple system theory holds that dysregulation of the multiple systems underlies the pathogenesis of depression and related mental disorders, and new therapies based on the multiple system dysregulation theory are urgently needed. In this study, the antidepressant effect of decoction from herbCistanche deserticolaY.C.Ma andCistanche tubulosawas examined. HerbCistanchedecoction reduced the immobility period significantly in the mouse tail suspension test. Mice treated with herb decoction showed an improved ability of spatial learning and memory in the Morris water maze test. Groups treated herb decoction displayed a downregulated monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity; the dopamine (DA) concentration in the brain was upregulated, indicating herbCistanchedecoction improved the nerve excitability; the serum concentration of corticosterone (CORT) was downregulated, showing that mice benefited from a reduced stress level. Hence, the antidepressant efficacy and mechanism of traditional Chinese herbCistanchewere explored in this study. HerbCistancheshowed a potential to be developed as a complementary and alternative therapy for depression.

Multimedia as an art therapy technique used in the treatment of mentally ill patients - opportunities and limitations

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Iwona Patejuk-Mazurek ◽  
Aleksandra Chmielnicka-Plaskota ◽  
Bronisław Treger
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Art Therapy ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Neurotic Disorders ◽  
Therapy Technique ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
The Times

The authors present the opportunities of using multimedia as an art therapy technique in the treatment of people suffering from mental disorders, whilst pointing out the limitations of this method. They classify patients into two groups: those with mental disorders and those manifesting mental symptoms, and present, in addition to the benefits - the risk of the use of multimedia. Individuals with mental disorders, especially psychotic patients (e.g. those with schizophrenia) may react differently to the proposed multimedia techniques compared with neurotic patients. The way they react depends mainly on the stage of the disease (acute or stable, remission of symptoms) and its nature. The use of multimedia may help schizophrenic patients recover, but it may also worsen their mental state. It may activate psychotic symptoms (e.g. delusions of thought insertion), trigger fear, anxiety and lead to the withdrawal from art therapy activities. For patients with neurotic disorders (anxiety disorders such as social phobia) multimedia can be a training of creative powers in rebuilding the ego, self-observation and a training to create a social network. There is little available research on the topic, so it is difficult to clearly assess the effectiveness of this technique in the process of recovery. However, the progress of civilization in the rehabilitation of mentally ill individuals enforces measures suitable to the times in which we live.

scholarly journals Tinea Corporis Resolution by Homoeopathy: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
Zeba Waheed ◽  
Ram Krishna Ghosh ◽  
Aniruddha Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Tinea Corporis ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Therapy ◽  
Tinea Cruris ◽  
Clinical Presentations ◽  
Cost Effective Treatment ◽  
Causative Agents ◽  
Line Of Therapy

Dermatophytes, the most common causative agents, are assuming high significance in developing countries like India. These organisms metabolise keratin and cause a range of pathologic clinical presentations, including tinea pedis, tinea corporis, tinea cruris, etc. Although usually painless and superficial, these fungi can behave in an invasive manner, causing deeper and disseminated infection and should not be neglected. The lesions may become widespread and may have significant negative social, psychological, and occupational health effects, and can compromise the quality of life significantly. The recent prevalence of dermatophytosis in India ranges from 36.6-78.4%. Currently, dermatologists across India are inundated with cases of dermatophytosis presenting with unusual large lesions, ring within ring lesions, multiple site lesions (tinea cruris et corporis), and corticosteroid modified lesions, making diagnosis a difficult bet. 1 First line of therapy has always been a topical agent; while in resistance of the topical agents next preferred treatment are the oral therapies of antifungal agents (Ketoconazole, Terbinafine, Fluconazole and Itraconazole). However complementary and alternative therapy has also shown the significant results in control of growth of these dermatophytes. Homoeopathy has always been a safe and cost effective treatment in cases of dermatophyte infections.2 The present case report of a 31 years old Muslim female, Sepia officinalis 1M and Sulphur (30C and 200C) have shown marked improvement in the reduction of the lesion. Key words: Tinea corporis, homoeopathy, totality of symptoms, repertorisation.

scholarly journals Biological mechanism study of meditation and its application in mental disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. e100214
Author(s):  
Hui Shen ◽  
Meijuan Chen ◽  
Donghong Cui
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Mechanism Study ◽  
Addictive Disorders ◽  
Brain Structure And Function ◽  
Major Depressive Disorders ◽  
And Function ◽  
Telomere Regulation

In recent years, research on meditation as an important alternative therapy has developed rapidly and been widely applied in clinical medicine. Mechanism studies of meditation have also developed progressively, showing that meditation has great impact on brain structure and function, and epigenetic and telomere regulation. In line with this, the application of meditation has gradually been expanded to mental illness, most often applied for major depressive disorders and substance-related and addictive disorders. The focus of this paper is to illustrate the biological mechanisms of meditation and its application in mental disorders.

scholarly journals Network Pharmacology Identifies the Mechanisms of Action of Tongxie Anchang Decoction in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea Predominant

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xiang Tan ◽  
Wenjing Pei ◽  
Chune Xie ◽  
Zhibin Wang ◽  
Tangyou Mao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Enrichment Analysis ◽  
Network Pharmacology ◽  
Active Compounds ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Therapy ◽  
Pharmacological Mechanism ◽  
Target Network ◽  
Irritable Bowel

Aim. This study aims to uncover the pharmacological mechanism of Tongxie Anchang Decoction (TXACD), a new and effective traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription, for treating irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea predominant (IBS-D) using network pharmacology. Methods. The active compounds and putative targets of TXACD were retrieved from TCMSP database and published literature; related target genes of IBS-D were retrieved from GeneCards; PPI network of the common target hub gene was constructed by STRING. Furthermore, these hub genes were analyzed using gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analysis. Results. A total of 54 active compounds and 639 targets were identified through a database search. The compound-target network was constructed, and the key compounds were screened out according to the degree. By using the PPI and GO and KEGG enrichment analyses, the pharmacological mechanism network of TXACD in the treatment of IBS-D was constructed. Conclusions. This study revealed the possible mechanisms by which TXACD treatment alleviated IBS-D involvement in the modulation of multiple targets and multiple pathways, including the immune regulation, inflammatory response, and oxidative stress. These findings provide novel insights into the regulatory role of TXACD in the prevention and treatment of IBS-D and hold promise for herb-based complementary and alternative therapy.

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