Selective breeding

The most crippling type of pain is often lower back pain. This is because if your back pain is strong enough it can keep you from doing anything other than lying in a bed. Lower back pain is also a common health affliction that affects millions of people worldwide. No matter what your health and fitness levels just about everyone has had some type of lower back pain at one point or another in their life. And the type of pain can vary from very mild to severe to crippling. Many people, at the…

Treatment of Panic Attack What is a Panic attack? A Panic attack is sudden overpowering sentiment intense and handicapping anxiety. As it were, a fit of anxiety is an unexpected scene of extraordinary understanding that causes extreme physical reactions when no real danger or apparent reason. Fits of anxiety may be too surprising. At the point when anxiety fits happen to believe you’re losing control, showing at least a bit harsh attack despite goodness or dust. Medicines fit for Panic…

Although people with OCD often experience different symptoms, there are many symptoms that are common. Some obsessions include fear of germs, aggressive thoughts about yourself, and the need for symmetry and tidiness. All of these obsessions interfere with someone’s normal life and often cause stress and anxiety. There are many different compulsions that people with OCD have and cannot control. These compulsions include ordering things in a specific way, constantly cleaning and washing their…

Determining the most effective treatment for a patient suffering from depression is crucial. Beidal, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014 state that a combination of therapies and antidepressants is the most common today and typically effect for most people (p.224). Therapies like cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal therapy are the most common forms of therapy used when treating depression. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thought (Beidel, Bulik, & Stanley, 2014,…

Two large well-controlled trials have been conducted to compare CBT and psychodynamic therapy for depression. The first was the Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Project (TDCRP) conducted in the 1980s. This study compared the efficacy of CBT, interpersonal psychotherapy, and pharmacotherapy for depression. Outcomes for CBT and interpersonal therapy were generally equivalent (Elkin et al., 1989), although CBT did not fare as well as IPT or antidepressant medication among the more…

Although the literature is filled with information about the prevalence and incidence of back pain in general there is less information about chronic low back pain, partly because of lack of agreement about the definition. Chronic back pain sometimes is defined as back pain that lasts longer than 7-12 weeks. Others define is as pain that lasts beyond the expected period of healing, and acknowledge the chronic pain may not have well-defined underlying pathological causes. Others classify…

Lamictal (lamotrigine) is an anti-epileptic medication, also called an anticonvulsant.It is used either alone or in combination with other medications to treat epileptic seizures in adults and children. This drug is also used to delay mood episodes in adults with bipolar disorder (manic depression). Precautions: You should not take this drug if you are allergic to lamotrigine. To make sure you can safely take Lamictal, tell your doctor if you have any of these other conditions: * kidney or…

The notion that an antidepressant you might take is presumably not any more successful than taking a sugar pill is alarming, especially giving the amount of Americans being treated for depression with these -be cures. A meta-analysis distributed in 2010 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has uncovered precisely this; Six separate studies were joined into one to investigate the viability of antidepressants, and the outcomes have demonstrated that treating the root causes for…

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a condition of excessive intrusive thoughts, called obsessions, that lead to repetitive behaviors or rituals, called compulsions, to soothe the brain. This condition makes people's brains feel overwhelmed or out of “control” of a simple worry, so it causes them to have irrational behaviors to calm this worry down. OCD obsessions usually occurs around themes such as doing well in school, excelling at athletics, job related matters, self appearance, keeping things…

Depression has plagued humans for as long as they’ve lived. From Cleopatra to the beloved Robin Williams, depression has taken its toll on the lives of thousands throughout the years. Although it has been around as long as people themselves, a medicine to help treat depression has only recently been discovered. With a little help from advancing technology, antidepressants have become increasingly helpful in treating the symptoms of depression. Antidepressant medications are an effective way to…