Recalibrating 'fight or flight'
Friday, January 23, 2009 - 15:56
in Health & Medicine
A Canadian/U.S. research team has reported a novel approach to stimulating recovery from chronic stress disorders. Details of the therapeutic model, which exploits the natural dynamics of the body's 'fight or flight' system, are published 23 January in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology. In contrast to conventional time-invariant therapy, the researchers propose a well-directed therapeutic push delivered according to an optimal treatment schedule...