Interventional psychiatry is a rapidly growing sub-specialty in the field of psychiatry. One component of interventional psychiatry employs neuromodulation, or brain stimulation, which involves the use of electroconvulsive therapy to address issues such as depression and obsessive compulsive disorder.
The UAMS Health interventional psychiatry program utilizes evidence-based treatments that can provide remarkable results. Some of the methods used by the interventional psychiatry staff are relatively new while others have been approved for use for many years. All are effective in treating mental illnesses that have not improved with the use of antidepressants or psychotherapy.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of patients from Arkansas and surrounding states are suffering from mental health problems that could be reduced or even resolved through the our interventional psychiatry program.
The UAMS Health interventional psychiatry program could be the answer to those with long-term depression and other mental health problems that have not improved through the use of medication or psychotherapy.
