Anticonvulsant

Case Study My client is a nineteen-year-old female named Kara was referred to counseling because of her sporadic behavior changes. Her parents have noticed her behavior change within the last year. They explain her being extremely depressed at times and then energetic at other. Sometimes Kara is sleeping for days and other times she is bursting with energy and unstoppable. After speaking with Kara, it is evident she is unable to concentrate on one thought at a time and is unclear when she…

TREATMENT Knowing how to treat each of these disorders is useful to categorize them and become one step close to answering the research question at hand. However, it is also essential to developing an understanding of the knowledge that can be used to treat affected patients of both disorders. It is important to note that treatment is a means of reducing symptoms, but is not synonymous with a cure for the condition. The most effective and commonly used treatment for Seasonal Affective…

Questions & Answers: 1. What mental illness are you researching? The mental illness we are researching is Bipolar Disorder. 2. What is the definition of your disorder? What might be physical/noticeable characteristics of this disorder? A mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression is the definition of Bipolar Disorder. Physical/ noticeable characteristics of this disorder is that you can see the person experiencing mood episodes.The moods are: excessively happy,…

Ting, a twelve-year-old Chinese immigrant female, is medically diagnosed with Proteus syndrome. She has soft tissue masses in her chest and neck, a malformed mastoid bone, a brain tumor, a nonmalignant abdominal tumor, a neurogenic bladder, and musculoskeletal deformities. Additionally, her face, head, and digits are asymmetrical, her legs are of unequal length, and she has a gastrostomy feeding tube. At age 2 years she developed a brain infection, resulting in developmental delays and seizures.…

The patient presents with a significant history of traumatic brain injury with facial reconstruction and vertebral fractures, chronic ace and back pain, neuropathy, and acid reflux.The patient presented to the emergency room after a seizure witnessed by the wife at home. Wife believed seizure lasted for 45 seconds and patient feel to the floor and hit his head. The patient states that he has had increasing episodes on intermittent tremors, and starring off for the last year. CTscan of the head…

Going green With the recent changes of laws legalizing recreational use and small of amounts of marijuana in many states such as Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C, it has become a very controversial topic in today’s society. Marijuana been has named as dangerous drug that serves no purpose, these types of false malicious claims have been made by misinformed individuals in addition to propaganda throughout the last century, these claims have been replaced with concrete facts. Facts that show…

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the nervous system. Some of the symptoms of epilepsy are periodic or reoccurring seizures which are triggered by sudden episodes of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Approximately 30% of the 200,000 new cases reported every year begin in childhood particularly around the time of adolescence (Marshall). Another period of relatively high incidences is in people over 65 years old (Marshall). During a seizure many nerve cells with a specific region of the…

I have chosen Clobazam to profile for this assessment. Clobazam is a member of the 1,5- benzodiazepine family of drugs. Benzodiazepines were first discovered in Hoffmann-La Roche Laboratories by Dr. Leo Sternbach in 1954, as many as 29 different benzodiazepines are being marketed across Europe and the US at present. Clobazam was The low occurrence of sedation as a side effect gives Clobazam an advantage over other 1,4-benzodiazepines in the long term treatment of epilepsy / seizures this is due…

The introduction of barbiturates at the beginning of the 20th century (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005) offered critical and profound advances in the field of psychiatric and neurological developments (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005). Barbiturates were used for the treatment of ailments ranging from sleep disorders, psychoses, neuroses and epileptic seizures (López-Muñoz & Ucha-Udabe, 2005). Barbiturates paved a monumental pathway in the field of intravenous anesthesia and were the first, truly…

Binge eating disorder is a disorder that will cause a person to feel as if they need food all the time. Having that feeling causes the person to consume large amounts of food and feel like that are not able to stop eating. It is normal for a person to over eat once in a while like on a special occasion, but when it starts to become a daily or eve hourly habit it turns into a serious problem. An individual with this type of disorder could be embarrassed about it causing them to say that they are…