Drake Institute
Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine was started in 1980 to address how the mind affects our physical health, and to develop clinical (non-drug) protocols to resolve stress related disorders and diseases. The human factor in health and disease had been largely ignored. Stress disorders emanate from tensions resulting from perceptions and reactions to the daily challenges and changes that we experience in our lives. These stress reactions are cumulative with its effects on the body and result in unhealthy biochemical and physiologic imbalances in the body that cause disorders and diseases.
We learned at the Drake Institute how stress could cause malfunctionig or imbalances in any organ system, including cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, immunological, dermatological , rheumatological, neuro-logical, and of course psychological (anxiety, panic attacks, depression). Drake Institute's clinical protocols were deveolped to treat stress related disorders at their source, enabling patients to resolve their symptoms with long lasting improvement. Drugs only would temporarily to suppress symptoms, not resolve the disorders.. But Drake Institute's medical relaxation protocols using biofeedback instrumentation enabled patients to reach regenerative levels of relaxation that resolved symptoms in bringing the body back to healthy homeostasis, Normal relaxation levels would not achieve this.
Drake Institue's research on stress and the immune system, in collaboration with UCLA School of Medicine, showed how Drake Institute protocols in resolving stress disorders had an additional positive effect in improving the immune system. Drake Institute's treatment produced an improvement in Natural Killer Cell Activity that protects us from viruses and cancer cells.
The original clinic was in Los Angeles but Drake Institute expanded with an additional clinic today in Orange County that also helps pateints from San Diego and Riverside counties. Drake Institute has an accelerated 6 to 8 week treatment program for out of town patients, as Drake Institute has patients from all over the country as well as from abroad.
With advancements in medical instrumention, particularly with quantitative EEG brain mapping and EEG biofeedback or neurofeedback, the Drake Institute began treating Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in 1992. Since 1992 and over 8000 patients having been treated, the Drake Institute has become one of the leading medical centers in the world in treating ADD or ADHD with non drug clinical protocols using brain map guided neurofeedback. A success rate of approximately 80% of pateints significantly improved. Many children who came to Drake on ADD medication were able to be successfully titrated off medication with significant long lasting improvement from the neurofeedback treatment..
In Drake Institute's more recent history, Drake has produced many breakthroughs in helping patients on the Autism Spectrum, including high functioning autism and Asperger's Disorder. Using the same techniques of brain mapping and neurofeedback that were developed out in helping ADD patients, Drake has been able to help over 1000 patients on the Autism Spectrum. . Drake Institute's treatment protocols, which are developed uniquely from the patient's brain map, enabled many Autistic patients to go well beyond levels of improvement from previous therapies. Nonverbal children becoming very verbal from Drake's treament protocols. Autistic patients previously oblivious to peers , now able to develop friendships.
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