Antidepressant

Psychotropic agents refer to different substances that effect the mind and are used to treat stress and can be used as a tranquillizer. Psychotropic agents have different classes of medication which include; the central nervous system stimulant, antidepressant, anxiolytic, antimanic and antipsychotic medications. In reference to how the central nervous system stimulant works with the use of Amphetamine is classified as a stimulant and is used as a controlled substance which helps treat…

patients treated with a combination of psychotherapy and medication to have better outcomes than those treated with only one or the other. The most common classes of medications used to combat anxiety disorders are antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and beta-blockers. Antidepressants are used to treat depression, but they…

Like other SNRI antidepressants, there is a black box warning on desvenlafaxine’s package insert stating the medication can increase risk of suicidal ideation. All patients should be closely monitored for changes in these behaviors and development of suicidal thoughts. Desvenlafaxine…

Huntington disease What is Huntington disease? Huntington disease is an inherited neurologic disorder characterized by progressive neurodegeneration resulting in abnormal movements (chorea), sustained postures (dystonia), psychiatric symptoms, and dementia. The condition most frequently affects individuals during mid-life, but patients range from childhood to age 80. Symptoms are typically insidious – they come about slowly and progressively. Chorea is described as a dance-like, rapid,…

I think back to the year 2003. It was my first time stepping foot into a public school. All of my life up until my transition into public school education was spent comfortably in a private school with friends and teachers whom I grew up with from kindergarten to seventh grade. That day started a battle that I would continuously have with myself for seven grueling years. As an extrovert, the pain of feeling like I could not be my true self was excruciating. The constant feeling of rejection,…

Carbamazepine (Tegretol) and Phenobarbital (Luminal) belongs to a group of medication called anticonvulsants. Tegretol is prescribed to control epilepsy, prevents facial pan from trigeminal, and act as a mood stabilizer to control mania in patients that have episodes of over activity. The medication decreases the synaptic transmission in the central nervous system affecting the sodium channels in neurons (Deglin, Vallerand, & Sanoski, 2014, p. 265). Similarly, Luminal is prescribed to patients…

Sydney Browning 11/13/15 9th Lit Kowalske Mental Illness There are many mental illnesses that should be addressed in the book The Glass Castle . One of the many mental illnesses that should be addressed in the book is Bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorder is a disorder where you have frequent mood swings and it can last from a few weeks or the rest of your life. Some symptoms of this disorder are 1) Poor financial choices 2)Feeling overly high 3) Feelings of sadness 4) Fatigue and…

Choice “C” is the best answer. It is important to administer a luminal amebicidal agent to eradicate the intestinal carriage after the amebic liver abscess has been treated with tissue amebicides, such as albendazole. Failure to use luminal agents can lead to relapse of infection in approximately 10% of patients. Luminal agents with proven efficacy include diloxanide furoate, iodoquinol, and paromomycin. Diloxanide furoate is free of major adverse effects. The most common adverse effect is…

The paper I chose for the Case of the Term assignment is “A case of tolterodine poisoning”. Tolterodine (Detrol, Detrusitol) (CAS #124937-51-5) is an antimuscarinic drug that belongs to the class of drugs known as antispasmodics. Tolterodine is prescribed to treat urinary incontinence or overactive bladder by relaxing the muscles in the bladder. Tolterodine is marketed and manufactured by Pfizer. Antimuscarinic drugs inhibit the action of acetylcholine at muscarinic receptors. Tolterodine acts…

The DSM-V is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health and other health professionals, and is used for diagnostic and research purposes (Grison Pg. 503). The DSM-5 contains a number of significant changes from the earlier DSM-IV. the DSM-5 eliminated the axis system, instead listing categories of disorders along with several different related disorders. Some examples of categories included in the DSM-5 include anxiety disorders, bipolar and related disorders,…