health and safety requirements could become harmed. 4. Identify common types of medication. Antibiotics‚ Antipsychotic and anti depressants. 5. List conditions for which each type of medication may be prescribed? Antibiotics - They can be used to treat relatively mild conditions such as acne as well as potentially life-threatening conditions such as pneumonia. Antipsychotic - medications are often
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Mental Illness is a term used for a group of disorders causing severe disturbances in thinking‚ feeling and relating. They result in substantially diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. (Mental Illness Defined) There are some different perspectives on the causes of mental illness. The perspectives include the biological‚ psychodynamic‚ humanistic and existential‚ behavioral‚ cognitive‚ and sociocultural. Advances in brain imaging techniques have helped scientists study
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REVIEW Neuropsychopharmacology REVIEWS (2009) 34‚ 159–172 & 2009 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0893-133X/09 $30.00 ............................................................................................................................................................... www.neuropsychopharmacology.org 159 Pharmacogenomics: The Promise of Personalized Medicine for CNS Disorders
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institutionalisation and sedation together with insulin coma and electroconvulsive therapies. This new approach to diagnosis based on clustering led to the development of antipsychotics (the most well-known being chlorpromazine). Few landmark drugs have so dramatically changed the way that a disease is managed as the first antipsychotic agent chlorpromazine did with schizophrenia because it helped to alleviate the ‘positive symptoms’ schizophrenia without the need for outdated invasive approaches such
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Mental Disorders‚ Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). Association‚ A. P. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Arlington‚ VA: American Psychiatric Association. Dixon‚ L. B.‚ Lehman‚ A. F.‚ & Levine‚ J. (1995). Conventional Antipsychotic Medications for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin‚ 21(4). Fisher‚ V. (1944). The treatment of an early case of Schizophrenia by the psychic shock method. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry‚ 278-289. Engstrom‚ E. (2004). Clinical Psychiatry
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References: Cooper‚ W.‚ Arbogast‚ P.‚ & Ding‚ H. (2006‚ March). Trends in prescribing antipsychotic medications in US children. Ambulatory Pediatrics: the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatrics Association‚ 6(2). Tietz‚ G. F. (1986‚ April). Informed consent in the prescription drug context: the special case. Washington Law Review‚ 61(367)
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In the movie “A Beautiful Mind”‚ a university scholar called John Nash is facing severe brain disorder called “Schizophrenia”. This brain disorder can be chronic and severe to the patients and they couldn’t differentiate reality normally. They tend to hear voices nor see people that doesn’t actually exist. They may also believe that there are people controlling their thoughts and plotting their life to harm them. Schizophrenia patient may talk things that doesn’t make any sense‚ they often stay quietly
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What is the difference between an acute dystonia and tardive dyskinesia? Dystonia is characterized by muscle spasm‚ twitching‚ facial grimacing‚ and torticollis. Tardive dyskinesia is a more serious condition that may develop after long term antipsychotic therapy. This condition involves involuntary movements of the lips‚ jaw‚ tongue and
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Critically analyse the physical care‚ well being and interventions used in a client in your care Module: MHR4607 Physical Health and Wellbeing ‘Critically analyse the physical care‚ well being and interventions used in a client in your care’. This reflective essay focus’s on a 54 year old service user who suffers from schizophrenia. Coinciding with her mental health illness she has a diagnosis’s of diabetes type 2‚ she is obese‚ and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For the
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Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experience‚ to think logically‚ to have normal emotional responses to others‚ and to behave normally in social situations. Approximately 1% of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime‚ and more than 2 million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency
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