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care. The ABCDEs are as follows: airway maintenance with cervical spine protection, breathing and ventilation, circulation and cardiac status with hemorrhage control, disability (neurological deficit or gross deformity), and exposure to examine for major associated injuries and maintain a warm environment. (Heffernan,…

Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally - 1. It is characterised by positive (Type 1) symptoms e.g. hallucinations, and negative (Type 2) symptoms e.g. alogia – poverty of speech -2. With its onset in late adolescence or early adulthood, where for men it usually occurs during the ages of 18 to 25, and for women, 25 to 35, and the lack of fully effective treatments, it contributes massively to the global burden of disease -3. Schizophrenia…

Post-partum depression is more widely found in adolescent females who had just given birth, it is caused mostly from stress, poor marital relationships, and hardship of coping with a new baby, working as well as being a new mother, social support and women who have had a history of depression. Depression is considered second to H.I.V/AIDS according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In the U.S.A post-partum depression is one of the leading causes of non-obstetric hospitalization among young…

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About Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative movement disorder, affecting over six million people worldwide. The pathological finding associated with PD is the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of the pars compacta of the substantia nigra leading to the depletion of dopamine in the striatum. Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) is a common symptom of PD but is difficult to distinguish. Although it can occur at any stage of the illness, it is a…

A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Mood Disorders Depression is a discussed in depth in this chapter. The discoveries made throughout the years is astonishing. It is great to know there are people who study these illnesses and try to find ways to cure them. I knew Depression was something more common now than it has been in a couple of years but I did not know it was known as “the common cold of psychiatric disturbances” (Burns, 1980, p. 9). As I have grown, I have come to realize how much…

The frontal cortex had a seven percent volume decrease linked to major depression (Sheline, 2003). Other abnormalities in the frontal cortex include cortical thickness decrease and a loss of glial cells. This study show the neuronal size decrease also (Sheline, 2003). According to Sheline (2003) all control subjects showed…

BOOM! LOOKOUT! OH NO! Those were just a few words that I heard from people when discussing the events of 9/11.That tragic, life changing moment is never forgotten among others, for it was a terrorist attack that caused several murders. To be able to recover from losing someone in this tragic event, and assure your family everything was going to be okay was near impossible. This wasn’t just a bump in the road, this was the road. Of course, many people were sad and some took it very hard. You…

Depression is a constant feeling of guilt, sadness, and loneliness a person carries on a day to day basis, caused by the process of too many genes working together at once creating a switch in the brain. Depression is an illness that has over three million cases per year in the US. Depression doesn’t just effect one person, it also effects the people around them. It causes a challenge for many people who have depression today because it interferes with their daily life and makes it very hard for…

Recently, I have been asked a lot about the difference between having The Blues and being depressed. I give depression awareness advice through my business and LifeTips.com and have published an e book titled, " Keep The Magic and Survive Their Depression" which will be sold soon at Wendi.com. With depression ads all over the media many people are becoming skittish about what they are feeling and if it relates to depression. Apparently, commercials meant to compete for you dollars in the…