Serotonin transporter

This article talks about complementary and alternative therapies for a patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid Arthritis affects the joints and often causes pain and inflammation. There is no cure, so treatment is often used to relieve the patient’s pain. The autoimmune reaction usually occurs in synovial fluid and can eventually cause destruction of joint cartilage. The patient may also lose muscle, with tendons and ligaments losing their ability to contract. Complementary therapies…

The symptoms are explained thoroughly in this paper, as also the treatment for this specific disorder. A case study is also added as an example for a patient with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The information on treatment includes the medication Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SRIs), and therapy such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This paper can help understand if a person…

The serotonergic hypothesis, proposed by Mayeux and colleagues, interprets the overall reduction of serotonin in PD as a physiological compensatory mechanism for the reduced availability of striatal dopamine increasing risk factor for depression 31,32 33. The dopaminergic hypothesis of Fibiger is based on the fact that not only the nigrostriatal, but also…

Psychoanalysis Evaluation Joey Williams – 5th Hour January 12th, 2017 Kiana has been observed and has shown many symptoms of mental illness. From seeing things to hearing things to a very vivid imagination. I believe she shows some symptoms of persistent depressive disorder and schizoaffective disorder. She has become very depressed as she doesn’t find joy or the initiative to act in social activities or leave her room. Her emotions greatly change as she spends more time within her room and she…

Introduction Fear is a very interesting human emotion to study. The range of fear is very wide, at one end it can be something minor being a result of one stimulus, and then on the other end it can lead to panic attacks, and anxiety. Epidemiological studies suggested that at least 25% of the population will develop some sort of anxiety disorder anytime during their lifetime (Luck 2015.) One of the biggest problems in this study is a relapse after successful intervention. The author constructed…

One common neuropharmachological agent is fluoxetine or Prozac. Prozac is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and among the most extensively prescribed drugs in existence (Komlosi, Molnar, Rozsa, Olah, Barzo, & Tamas, 2012). To better understand why Prozac is a popular drug, a review of the physiological mechanisms underlying its action and properties will be conducted. Before understanding how Prozac works, it is important to review biological aspects of the neuron and…

My term paper is based on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how it affects people everyday and analyze OCDs cause and effects as well as obtaining a case study. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is characterized by a certain perfectionism and mental interpersonal control at the expense of efficiency. Most would consider that OCD just causes people to be “neat freaks” or “germophobes”, but it’s actually a lot more complicated than that. OCD is an anxiety disorder with various complex characteristics…

Anxiety rolled around in the ninth grade. According to the National Alliance on mental illness, fifty percent of mental conditions begin by age fourteen and seventy-five percent develop by age twenty-four. Anxiety is a painful murder, a passionate and profound killer and physical for many, but I believe that anxiety can’t overpower us and that it can be managed. Anxiety surely weighed down on me in ninth grade halfway through my first year of highschool. I would not necessarily classify…

This article about antidepressants starts by talking about how the use of antidepressants has increased throughout the decades. The article suggest that depression is being misdiagnosed in many patients who think have depression when they really do not. These people are turning to antidepressants to address and deal with feeling sad and stress in their life. The article suggests that depression can be properly diagnosed and treated with a psychiatrist, but people turn to their primary care…

Obsessive compulsive disorder, known as OCD. OCD is a mental health disorder that is brought upon by unreasonable thoughts and fears that cause the person to have compulsive behaviors. There are many different compulsive behaviors that people can have. They may excessively wash and clean themselves, check and count things, they may be extremely organized and require a strict routine, and also demand reassurance. People with OCD do not think that they have a problem until it drastically…