Atypical antipsychotic

medicine drastically reduces hallucinations in people with schizophrenia (Mueser and Gingerich 145). Antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine can dramatically reduce the most prominent psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and odd speech) but more modestly reduce the negative symptoms (poverty of speech, apathy, and difficulty concentrating). Antipsychotic medications can take rapid effect, sometimes producing noticeable changes in the first few hours,…

In order to fully assist the patient in the case study a comprehensive analysis must be used to fully address all of the patient 's ailments. The individual has some physical issues that need to be addressed, such as the diabetes and the obesity. These should be looked at first because, in order to treat any psychological issues, the physical issues need to be worked on. A person who feels better has a better chance at addressing other issues. Psychologically the patient needs to address the…

Describe the character's diagnosis in terms of the DSM-IV. Make sure to include two (2) criteria that the character meets. In the movie beautiful mind, John Nash, the main character suffers from delusional schizophrenia. These portray various symptoms of his disease. John Nash believes he's a secret agent who works for the federal government. While doing this duty, he believes people are after him. John Nash experiences these hallucinations all throughout college while attending Princeton…

“Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally” (Smith). Schizophrenics experience symptoms such as extremely disorganized behavior, hallucinations, as well as delusions. The schizophrenic symptoms stated above are the very exact symptoms that Macbeth experiences. Hallucinations, disorganized behavior, as well as delusions are symptoms that can be seen throughout the play and connect very well with the schizophrenic mental disorder. Also, schizophrenia is…

3 DRUG PROFILE 3.1 ETODOLAC Etodolac (ETD) belongs to a class of drug called non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSADs). Other members of this class include aspirin, ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, Nuprin, etc.), naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn), indomethacin (Indocin), nabumetone (Relafen) and numerous others. 3.1.1 Physical Characteristics: - (Brittain et al, 2002), (Dollary, 1999). IUPAC name : 1,8-Diethyl -1,3,4,9-tetrahydropyrano[3,4,-b] indole-1- acetic acid…

There are various models that attempt to approach the explanations of abnormality these are the biomedical model, psychoanalytical, behaviourist and cognitive. Identification of the four psychological explanations of abnormality will be explained throughout this essay. Evaluation of the psychological explanations will also be included and a conclusion of research that has been found. Lawton, J (2009) said that the biological model believes that abnormalities are caused by biological processes…

was a brilliant mathematician. He revolutionized the way modern economics is approached with his Nash Equilibrium. Nash also suffered from Paranoid Schizophrenia. It is known that Nash was admitted to various mental institutions and placed on antipsychotics. It is also known that Nash had delusions and heard various “voices” (PBS 2002). Does this constitute the diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia? According to Schizophrenia.com, “Paranoid schizophrenia is the most common type of…

Leeona Pierce “Effects of sepsis on behavioral changes on the ketamine-induced animal model of schizophrenia” This article focuses on the question of if there is a potential association between sepsis and schizophrenia, and how sepsis may influence behavior on the ketamine-induced animal model of schizophrenia. Sepsis is a systematic inflammatory response that occurs by the failure to limit the spread of infection leading to organ failure and inflammation. The paper mentions that inflammation…

TIOPURINES IN THE IBD TREATMENT SCENARIO Thiopurines are regarded as the first line of remission maintenance treatment in CD in a strategy known as accelerated step-up18-25. Thiopurines (azathioprine - AZA and 6-mercaptopurine-6-MP) are pre-drugs. AZA is activated by the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HGPRT) enzyme, whose metabolite, 6-thioguanosine 5-monophosphatase (TGMP), after a series of reductions becomes dGS (deoxy-6-thioguanosine 5-triphosphatase), the final metabolite…

Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed drugs to treat schizophrenia. They control symptoms by affecting the brain’s neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin. Thereby control the symptoms of schizophrenia. Sometimes individuals become uncooperative…