Antipsychotic

6. When looking at this specific diagnosis, medication may not always be the best option. There are two main type of medication including psycho-stimulant and nonstimulant which both have different effects. For example, psycho-stimulant medications, “help important networks of nerve cells in the brain to communicate more effectively with each other.”(). Nonstimulant medications may be used, “when psychostimulant medications have been ineffective, unacceptable side effects have resulted, or the…

According to Fusar-Poli (2009), schizophrenia is delineated by prefrontal activity and elevated striatal dopaminergic functions. There are primary neurological brain abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia. For example; robust abnormalities elevated in striatal dopamine activity and prefrontal cortical dysfunctions (Fusar-Poli, 2009). Other abnormalities include white matter in the right superior frontal gyrus, left middle frontal gyrus, bilateral parahippocampal gyrus, adjacent to the…

Aripiprazole is an atypical antipsychotic, second generation, indicated for schizophrenia and other psychoses, is an atypical antipsychotic drug approved by the FDA. The aripiprazole is an antipsychotic drug that works by changing the actions of chemicals in the brain. It is used to treat the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, or with other medicines to treat major depressive disorder in adults. “Aripiprazole is also used to treat symptoms of…

Schizophrenia is one of the most complex and severe mental health disorders. Globally 1 percent of the population is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and roughly 1.2 percent of Americans have the disorder (Nemade & Dombeck, 2009). Schizophrenia is a lifelong progressive brain disorder, which is characterized by periods of psychosis. Currently, schizophrenia can be treated but not cured. No single factor is thought to cause schizophrenia; rather multiple factors contribute to the development of this…

Carey Counseling Center offers medication management, therapy and case management as its basic mental health services. One important aspect of mental health with the most improvement over the past few decades is medications used to treat mental health symptoms. Abilify (aripiprazole) is one of the newest a-typical anti-psychotic medications that help block dopamine receptors shown to influence the symptomology of such things as hallucinations, delusions and thought distortion in…

“I was a bit frightened but I did not mention it to anybody because I thought they would call me deaf, silly, stupid, whatever!” said an 80 year-old woman who got macular disease problem and Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) in an interview (Macular Disease, 2013) Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a condition when people see things that are not actually there. This syndrome has been discovered by an exceptional naturalist and philosopher, Charles Bonnet in 1720 who was initially observed symptoms from his…

Based on the information that is available, Herbert Mullin seems to have a severe Type 1 Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as “a psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, and motor abnormalities” (BOOK). I believe that Mullin has Type 1 Schizophrenia because while he displays both positive and negative symptoms, the positive symptoms are more dominate. Positive symptoms are…

Lars has a very unfortunate life with his mental disorder. He lives everyday with his mind swirling in his head. He is trapped by his own evil that lives in his head and he can’t escape it. Lars have a very interesting personality in the movie Lars and the Real Girl. Multiple disorders that we have studied follow under his footsteps. One that connects with him very well is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has really important symptoms that stick out to the average person in public. This can…

Academic consensus regarding the etiology of most mental disorders is quite difficult to achieve due to polygenic effects underlying the majority of mental disorders, complex gene-environment interactions, and the constant emergence of both supportive and contradictory evidence. Such complexity is natural to the study of most disorders; however, there are still some such as Schizophrenia that pose even more difficulty compared to others. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric condition that is marked by…

We hypothesized that there are common gene pathways responsible for the schizophrenia–type 2 diabetes mellitus association in drug-naive subjects. In particular, wepropose that the insulin growth factor 2 m-RNA binding protein 2 (IGF2BP2) genetic variants rs4402960 and rs1470579 .associates and replicated in type 2 diabetes mellitus Egyptians (14,15) gene pathways maycontribute to both type 2 diabetes mellitus and schizophrenia Through this exploration , we tried to link thepathogenetic…