I turned up these articles during a search of the ISA "web of science"
( 3 bases: SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, and A&HCI if you want to know). It
is an interesting supplement to CAM/pubmed and Medline. But don't we
need a centralized database to store all this stuff???

Scott
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A historical perspective of the popular use of electric and magnetic
therapy

Basford JR

ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

82 (9): 1261-1269 SEP 2001

Document type: Review

Language: English

Cited References: 41

Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
Objectives: To review the history of the therapeutic use of static
electric and magnetic fields and to understand its implications for
current popular and medical
acceptance of these and other alternative and complementary therapies.

Data Sources: Comprehensive MEDLINE (1960-2000) and CINAHL (1982-2000)
computer literature searches by using key words such as electricity,
magnetism,
electromagnetic, therapy, medicine, EMF, history of medicine, and
fields. Additional references were obtained from the bibliographies of
the selected articles. In addition,
discussions were held with curators of medical history museums and
supplemental searches were made of Internet sources through various
search engines.

Study Selection: Primary references were used whenever possible. In a
few instances, secondary references, particularly those requiring
translations of early texts, were
used.

Data Synthesis: The use of electric and magnetic forces to treat
disease has intrigued the general public and the scientific community
since at least the time of the
ancient Greeks. The popularity of these therapies has waxed and waned
over the millennia, but at all times the popular imagination, often
spurred by dynamic and
colorful practitioners of pseudoscience, has been more excited than
the medical or political establishment. In fact, a pattern seems to
reappear. In each era,
unsophisticated public acceptance is met first with medical disdain,
then with investigation, and, finally, with a failure to find
objective evidence of efficacy. This pattern
continues today with the public acceptance of magnetic therapy (and
alternative and complementary medicine in general) far outstripping
acceptance by the medical
community.

Conclusion: The therapeutic implications of applying electrical and
magnetic fields to heal disease have continually captured the popular
imagination. Approaches
thousands of years apart can be remarkably similar, but, in each era,
proof has been lacking and the prevailing medical establishment has
remained unconvinced, Interest
persists today. Although these agents may have a future role in the
healing of human disease, their history and a minimal scientific
rationale makes it unlikely that the
dichotomy between the hopes of the public and the medical skepticism
will disappear.

Author Keywords:
electric stimulation therapy, electromagnetics, history, magnetics,
rehabilitation

KeyWords Plus:
ELECTROMAGNETIC-FIELDS, HEALTH, PAIN, EPIDEMIOLOGY

Addresses:
Basford JR, Mayo Clin & Mayo Fdn, Dept Phys Med & Rehabil, Rochester,
MN 55902 USA
Mayo Clin & Mayo Fdn, Dept Phys Med & Rehabil, Rochester, MN 55902 USA

Publisher:
W B SAUNDERS CO, PHILADELPHIA

IDS Number:
470LR

ISSN:
0003-9993

Transcranial magnetic stimulation - Applications in neuropsychiatry

George MS, Lisanby SH, Sackeim HA

ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

56 (4): 300-311 APR 1999

Document type: Review

Language: English

Cited References: 148

Times Cited: 59


Abstract:
In the 1990s, it is difficult to open a newspaper or watch television
and not find someone claiming that magnets promote healing. Rarely do
these claims stem from
double-blind, peer-reviewed studies, making it difficult to separate
the wheat from the chaff. The current fads resemble those at the end
of the last century, when many
were falsely touting the benefits of direct electrical and weak
magnetic stimulation. Yet in the midst of this popular interest in
magnetic therapy, a new neuroscience
field has developed that uses powerful magnetic fields to alter brain
activity-transcranial magnetic stimulation. This review examines the
basic principles underlying
transcranial magnetic stimulation, and describes how it differs; from
electrical stimulation or other uses of magnets. Initial studies in
this field are critically summarized,
particularly as they pertain to the pathophysiology and treatment of
neuropsychiatric disorders. Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a
promising new research and,
perhaps, therapeutic tool, but more work remains before it can be
fully integrated in psychiatry's diagnostic and therapeutic
armamentarium.

KeyWords Plus:
HUMAN MOTOR CORTEX, DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX,
POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER, ECHOPLANAR BOLD FMRI, RTMS
IMPROVES MOOD, ELECTROCONVULSIVE-THERAPY, BRAIN-STIMULATION,
EVOKED-POTENTIALS, MACAQUE MONKEY, CORTICAL
HYPEREXCITABILITY

Addresses:
George MS, Med Univ S Carolina, Dept Radiol, Funct Neuroimaging Res
Div, 171 Ashley Ave, Charleston, SC 29425 USA
Med Univ S Carolina, Dept Radiol, Funct Neuroimaging Res Div,
Charleston, SC 29425 USA
Med Univ S Carolina, Dept Psychiat, Charleston, SC 29425 USA
Med Univ S Carolina, Dept Neurol, Charleston, SC 29425 USA
Ralph H Johnson Vet Hosp, Charleston, SC USA
New York State Psychiat Inst, Dept Biol Psychiat, New York, NY 10032
USA
Columbia Univ Coll Phys & Surg, Dept Psychiat, New York, NY 10032 USA
Columbia Univ Coll Phys & Surg, Dept Radiol, New York, NY 10032 USA

Publisher:
AMER MEDICAL ASSOC, CHICAGO

IDS Number:
182NE

ISSN:
0003-990X


Speech disorders and magnetic therapy in patients with ischaemic
stroke

Aleksanyan Z, Lyskov E, Chrakovskaja M, Mikhailov V

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY

30 (1-2): 417, Sp. Iss. SI SEP 1998

Document type: Meeting Abstract

Language: English

Cited References: 0

Times Cited: 0


Addresses:
Inst Human Brain, St Petersburg 197376, Russia

Publisher:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, AMSTERDAM

Treatment with AC pulsed electromagnetic fields induces vivid colored
dreams in multiple sclerosis

Sandyk R

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

96 (1-2): 45-52 1998

Document type: Article

Language: English

Cited References: 40

Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
Cessation of dream recall has been reported in numerous neurological
disorders including multiple sr sclerosis (MS). Two women MS patients
are presented in whom
transcranial treatment with AC pulsed electromagnetic fields (EMFs) of
7.5 picotesla Aux density restored dream recall and 4 to 5 months
later induced vivid colored
dreams. The experience of colored dreams coincided with a period of
distinctive improvement in visual acuity, color vision, and depth
perception and in one patient with
normalization of the visual evoked potential latencies. Dreams
associated with REM sleep are reported to be vivid, colorful and
lengthy and administration of melatonin
facilitates REM sleep and increases its duration in humans.
Additionally, melatonin administered at night induces vivid colored
dreams in normal subjects and narcoleptic
patients. Therefore, since melatonin secretion is sensitive to the
effects of pulsed EMFs these findings suggest that the experience of
colored dreams in these patients
was probably related to reactivation of the pineal gland with
increased nocturnal melatonin release. The recurrence of colored
dreams in the course of magnetic
therapy may be a marker of pineal regeneration.

Author Keywords:
electromagnetic fields, multiple sclerosis, REM sleep, dream recall,
colored dreams, pineal gland, melatonin

KeyWords Plus:
RAT PINEAL-GLAND, MAGNETIC-FIELD, MELATONIN, SLEEP, RECALL, MECHANISM,
CELLS

Addresses:
Sandyk R, POB 453, Roslyn Hts, NY 11577 USA
Touro Coll, Inst Biomed Engn & Rehabil Serv, Dept Neurosci, Dix Hills,
NY 11746 USA

Publisher:
GORDON BREACH SCI PUBL LTD, READING

IDS Number:
150VT

ISSN:
0020-7454

IDS Number:
130XY

ISSN:
0167-8760

Resolution of sleep paralysis by weak electromagnetic fields in a
patient with multiple sclerosis

Sandyk R

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

90 (3-4): 145-157 1997

Document type: Review

Language: English

Cited References: 115

Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
Sleep paralysis refers to episodes of inability to move during the
onset of sleep or more commonly upon awakening. Patients often
describe the sensation of struggling to
move and may experience simultaneous frightening vivid hallucinations
and dreams. Sleep paralysis and other manifestations of dissociated
states of wakefulness and
sleep, which reflect deficient monoaminergic regulation of neural
modulators of REM sleep, have been reported in patients with multiple
sclerosis (MS). A 40 year old
woman with remitting-progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) experienced
episodes of sleep paralysis since the age of 16, four years prior to
the onset of her neurological
symptoms. Episodes of sleep paralysis, which manifested at a frequency
of about once a week, occurred only upon awakening in the morning and
were considered by
the patient as a most terrifying experience. Periods of mental stress,
sleep deprivation, physical fatigue and exacerbation of MS symptoms
appeared to enhance the
occurrence of sleep paralysis. In July of 1992 the patient began
experimental treatment with AC pulsed applications of picotesla
intensity electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
of 5Hz frequency which were applied extracerebrally 1-2 times per
week. During the course of treatment with EMFs the patient made a
dramatic recovery of
symptoms with improvement in vision, mobility, balance, bladder
control, fatigue and shea term memory. Tn addition, her baseline
pattern reversal visual evoked potential
studies, which showed abnormally prolonged latencies in both eyes,
normalized 3 weeks after the initiation of magnetic therapy and
remained normal more than 2.5
years later. Since the introduction of magnetic therapy episodes of
sleep paralysis gradually diminished and abated completely over the
past 3 years. This report
suggests that MS may be associated with deficient REM sleep inhibitory
neural mechanisms leading to sleep paralysis secondary to the
intrusion of REM sleep atonia
and dream Imagery into the waking state. Pineal melatonin and
monoaminergic neurons have been implicated in the induction and
maintenance of REM sleep and the
pathogenesis of sleep paralysis and it is suggested that resolution of
sleep paralysis in this patient by AC pulsed applications of EMFs was
related to enhancement of
melatonin circadian rhythms and cerebral serotoninergic
neurotransmission.

Author Keywords:
electromagnetic fields, multiple sclerosis, sleep paralysis, REM
sleep, pineal gland, melatonin, serotonin

KeyWords Plus:
PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS AREA, VISUAL-EVOKED POTENTIALS, RANGE
MAGNETIC-FIELDS, RAPHE UNIT-ACTIVITY, PINEAL-GLAND,
SEROTONIN METABOLISM, CEREBROSPINAL-FLUID, MONOAMINE METABOLITES,
NARCOLEPSY-CATAPLEXY, PARADOXICAL SLEEP

Addresses:
TOURO COLL,INST BIOMED ENGN & REHABIL SERV,DEPT NEUROSCI,DIX HILLS,NY
11746

Publisher:
GORDON BREACH SCI PUBL LTD, READING

IDS Number:
XZ378

ISSN:
0020-7454

STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL STATE OF CELLULAR MEMBRANES IN CHILDREN WITH
ECTOPIC ARRHYTHMIAS - EFFECTS OF
ELECTROTHERAPY AND MAGNETIC THERAPY ON CELLULAR METABOLIC PROCESSES

BERSHOVA TV, BAKANOV MI, GORDEEVA GF, DANILOVA NV, SERBIN VI, BOKERIA
LA, MAMEDOVA TN, MIKHAILOVA IL

KARDIOLOGIYA

34 (11-12): A42-A47 1994

Document type: Article

Language: Russian

Cited References: 0

Times Cited: 0


Abstract:
The state of membranes of erythrocytes was studied in children with
various ectopic arrhythmias before and after physiotherapeutic
procedures. Content of total
phospholipid, its composition, and cholesterol level in membranes of
erythrocytes were measured. Concentrations of lonized calcium,
calmodulin and total content of
inositolphosphates in erythrocytes and In myocardial tissue were also
determined. Before physiotherapy decrease of phospholipid/cholesterol
coefficient and dysbalance
in contents of separate phospholipid fractions were accompanied by
rise In cellular functional activity evidenced by increases of
Intracellular levels of ionized calcium,
calmodulin and of total Inositolphosphate content. Electromagnetic
therapy promoted improvement of clinical condition and sinus rhythm
restoration in 86% of patients.
In most cases this was accompanied by stabilization of cellular
membranes and normalization of mechanisms of regulation of cellular
metabolism and of calcium
homeostasis in particular. Possible mechanisms of action of
physiotherapeutic methods on molecular organization of cellular
membranes and on processes of regulation
of intracellular metabolism are discussed.

Author Keywords:
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS, IN CHILDREN, PATHOGENESIS, TREATMENT, CARDIOLOGY,
PEDIATRIC, ERYTHROCYTES, INTRACELLULAR
METABOLISM, CELLULAR MEMBRANES, COMPOSITION, PHYSIOTHERAPY

Addresses:
BERSHOVA TV, RUSSIAN ACAD MED SCI,PEDIAT RES INST,CLIN BIOCHEM
LAB,MOSCOW 109801,RUSSIA

Publisher:
IZD VO MEDITSINA, MOSCOW

IDS Number:
QY889

ISSN:
0022-9040