Holistic Psychiatrist Successfully Uses Cutting Edge Tech Instead Of Drugs

     There are two basic specialties that deal with mental and emotional conditions, psychologists who primarily use talk therapy, and psychiatrists, who are MDs and typically prescribe pharmaceutical drugs to alleviate symptoms.   About a month ago on Facebook Live, Dr. Taketa-Wong hosted a remarkable holistic psychiatrist that prefers to avoid prescribing drugs for his patients.  Dr. Erik Shipley incorporates advanced brain health techniques and also considers the role that a patient’s medical issues could play.

     In this eye-opening video, Dr. Shipley reveals how patients can be helped by TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation.  TMS is an advanced, cutting edge technology that uses magnetic fields to stimulate the nerve cells in the brain that are involved in mood control and much more.  Results are often very impressive.  Even military members with PTSD have achieved good results.
 
     Dr. Shipley is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry and general psychiatry and is a specialist with Brain Health Hawaii.  He treats disorders such as depression, anxiety, autism spectrum, trauma, PTSD, and many others.
   
     Different regions of the brain have certain rhythms, like the heart has a beat.  “It’s like a symphony with its different sections,” said Dr. Shipley.  “The advanced TMS technology can measure the beat of each section.  Because the brain’s circuits are electrical, a magnetic field can get each section of the brain beating in the same rhythm.  Then the symptoms that people experience as fatigue or anxiety or depression can resolve without the need for drugs.  Children with ADHD especially like it because they can avoid the personality changes that drugs can cause.”