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Seasonal Affective Disorder, and other mood or depression illnesses are enhanced by the environment around you. Please read the testimonial from one of our customers regarding the use of Pentex Ionizers in treating her SADD symptoms. Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder with a High-Output Negative IonizerMichael Terman, Ph.D. and Jiuan Su Terman, Ph.D. brought to you by
ABSTRACT This study was designed to evaluate the anti-depressant effect of negative ions in the ambient air as a potential treatment modality for seasonal affective disorder. Twenty-five subjects with winter depression underwent a double blind control trial of negative ions at two exposure densities, 1 x 104 ions/cm3 or 2.7 x 106 ions/cm3, using a Pentex electronic negative ion generator with wire corona emitters. Home treatments were taken in the early morning for 30 min. over 20 days, followed by withdrawals. Treatment with a high-density negative ionizer appears to act as a specific antidepressant for patients with seasonal affective disorder. The method may be useful as an alternative or supplement to light therapy and medications. The severity of depressive symptoms (prominently including the reverse neurovegetative symptoms of hypersomnia, hyperphagia, and fatigability) decreased selectively for the group receiving high density treatment. Standard depression rating scale assessments were corroborated by clinical impressions. When a remission criterion of 50% or greater reduction in symptom frequency/severity was used, 58% of subjects responded to high-density treatment while 15% responded to low-density treatment. There were no side effects attributed to the treatment, and all subjects who responded showed subsequent relapse during withdrawal.
PENTEX™ VI-2000 & VI-2500 AIR IONIZERThe above study at Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, was followed up with a much longer and bigger study at Rush St. Lukes Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. The study was on SADD. Michael Young, Ph.D. and Chairman Eastman, Ph.D., researchers at Rush St. Luke's Presbyterian Hospital, said of the study on high density negative ions that "70 to 80% of the people studied had significant response. We have results that are just as good as with drugs." According to Psychologist, Chairman Easton, Ph.D., one of the leading researchers on this project "70 to 80%of the people have significant response, up to 80% in depression, as good as with Prozac, (a powerful antidepressant). Ionization has long been known to have an anti-depressant effect and this phenomenon is experienced by anyone who has spent time at a seashore with pounding waves, or near a waterfall, where negative ionized air is abundant. One need not be depressed to benefit from the mood elevating effects of high density negative ions. The very same Pentex units used in the University studies are available through Air Purification Systems of Virginia. Please read the article on "Winds of Depression" for more insight to possible causes of SADD. A new Pentex customer in California graciously provided Air Purification Systems of Virginia an Internet link to a study performed on the combination of Bright Light and Negative Ionization Therapies in the treatment of Winter Depression. The Ionization product used in this study was of a older technology with far less ionization emission than any of the Pentex products. The article is too lengthy to duplicate on this site, so it can be found at :http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/issues/v55n10/rfull/yoa7395.html
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