Hydrotherapy as a possible neuroleptic and sedative treatment

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 230-238

  Shevchuk, Nikolai A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLON ABSORPTION; COLON LAVAGE; DEPRESSION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPERTHERMIA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SEDATION; SENSORY CORTEX; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TOXIC WASTE;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; COLON; CRYOTHERAPY; HEAT; HUMANS; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PAIN; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 37349012139     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.05.028     Document Type: Article

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