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multiple sclerosis patients. The specific targeting of SLC6 family transporters has led to vast improvements in the treatment of psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder77. Tricyclic antidepressants are less selective and thus patients suffered more side effects. The improved therapeutic effect of…

sadness, feeling of worthlessness, loss of interest, fatigued, anxious, irritable, loss or increase in appetite, sleep difficulty, suicidal talk and or attempt • Treatment: -Talk therapy -Group therapy -Electroconvulsive therapy -Medications: 1. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs): Fluoxetine (Prozac), Citalopram (Celexa), or Paroxetine (Paxil) 2. Tricyclic Antidepressants: Amoxapine (Asendin), Desipramine (Norpramin), Doxepin (Sinequan), Clomipramine (Anafranil) 3. Monoamine…

A Holistic Approach to Anxiety Among the most powerful aspects of anxiety is its ability of making you convinced that you are alone in the suffering and this shaky, fearful feeling is something unique to you. But the truth is that everyone suffers from anxiety at some point in their life. It can be as a response to a perceived threat or a real one. The fact is that we humans are programmed to want to run away when things get a little scary. it is what helps us stay safe and alive. But in case…

Going off of conditioned learning, behavioral psychologists use a type of therapy known as exposure therapy to treat anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, etc. The basis of the treatment is to expose the patient to the feared thing the person is dealing with. Through exposing the client to their fear, there will be a decrease of the fear due to facing the fear and realizing there is nothing to be worried about. This goes off the basis of how with conditioned learning, one can create fears involuntary,…

traditional agents, is effective in psychoses, such as schizophrenia, and other psychiatric illnesses in adults and children, including pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), autism, and attention-deficit disorder (ADD) [1–3]. It acts primarily by selective antagonism of dopamine Type 2 (D2) and serotonin Type 2 (5HT2) receptors in the brain [4–6]. Apart from minor N-dealkylation, the major pathway of biotransformation of RIS is hydroxylation at the 9_ position on the pyrido-pyrimidone ring to…

Method Design This experiment was a 3 x 2 mixed factorial design. The first independent variable had 3 levels representing participant training (psychiatry, psychology and no training) x the second independent variable, which had two levels representing conceptualization of depression (biological conceptualization and psychological conceptualization). The dependent variable of the study was participants’ rated likelihood of recovery from depression for affected individuals (described in…

1. Antidepressants can be a good way to treat people if other options are ruled out. However, I would first try to see if other options would work on a depressed client before using antidepressants. Also, it is proven that people on the placebo are more likely to relapse into depression compared to people on antidepressants and therefore antidepressants can be a good way to medicate clients. On the other side, due to the fact that it is proven that antidepressants are not very affective when it…

In the article, “Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors And Risk of Suicide: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies” is a research about the link between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and the suicide rate. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) are class of antidepressant drugs on which many debates and research have taken place over the years and yet now there is no definite conclusion. In this peer-reviewed research, not only SSRI drugs were used, but also other…

An obsession is an irrational and disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling. This dictionary definition of the word “obsession” leaves much to speculation. Does an obsession have to be irrational to be an obsession? Is the idea or feeling required to be unreasonable in order to be the subject of obsession? Much evidence and many recourses state the contrary. An obsession is a powerful preoccupation, a want, not a need. An obsession can be of something rational, as it…

Prescribing Antidepressants Without Psychiatrists Have you ever taken an antidepressant? If so, did it help? Or perhaps you just felt like you were no longer emotionally connected to anything going on around you? This is a common problem among many Americans. Everyday more and more prescriptions are made with no psychiatric input. Antidepressants are helpful if prescribed correctly, and antidepressants should be available after a period of psychiatric care if the psychiatrist prescribes prozac…