Alpha-Stim

Allen Childs, MD, FAPA

Medical Director

Dr. Childs joined Electromedical Products International, Inc. in April 2006 as the company’s Medical Director. Prior to then, he had been the Chief Psychiatrist at a Maximum Security Unit at North Texas State Hospital at Vernon where he introduced CES into the State system. At Vernon, Dr. Childs confirmed the anti-aggressive effects of CES in over 120 violent neuropsychiatric patients who were resistant to medication and other forms of treatment, some for as long as 20 years. His original finding of the calming effects of CES in severely assaultive brain injured patients was in 1985 and he has used the Alpha-Stim for more than 200 patients in the two decades since then, He has published 8 papers on CES, the most recent of which appeared in the fall of 2005 in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

Dr. Childs has been a psychiatrist for 40 years and has always focused on patients who fail to respond to standard therapy. He served as the Chief of Mental Hygiene at Schofield Barracks on the Island of Oahu during the Viet Nam war. His interest in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was kindled by participation in Operation Egress, which involved treatment of returning prisoners of war. He also treated many PTSD cases whose combat experience had left them with the lasting scars of war. He published one of the only accounts of soldiers who had become addicted to heroin during their service in Viet Nam; “The Soldier Addict: A New Battlefield Casualty” in The International Journal of the Addictions. More recently, he has treated veterans who suffer from PTSD with CES and has presented Alpha-Stim technology to VA Hospitals and Clinics.

Dr. Childs was elected to fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association as a result of his work with brain injured patients. He has also published contributions in the fields of physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychopharmacology, transsexualism and addictionology. Dr. Childs currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas.

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