Tardive dyskinesia

People with severe mental health conditions have increased rates of premature deaths and reduced life span compared to the general population. Studies clearly indicated that the life expectancy of New Zealanders with severe mental illness (SMI) and addictions has considerably reduced by up to twenty-five years compared to the general population (Newcomer, 2007). Research clearly highlighted that cardio-metabolic factors have an enormous impact in contributing to a significant increase in…

Tastes Like War: A Memoir (Cho, 2021) is the story of a daughter’s lived experience being raised by a mother who has schizophrenia. Throughout Grace’s life, her mother Koonja is continually impacted by the hardships that faced Korean women seeking freedom and beginning a new life in America. She tells the story of how the trauma experienced by Korean women such as being prostituted, losing, or being separated from family, and not engaging in aspects of their cultural identity, parallels to the…

SSRI stands for selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. It is a drug prescribed to treat depression, anxiety disorders, panic attacks and personality disorders by manipulating particular neurotransmitting systems regulating such as serotonin, a brain chemical which regulates mood as well as appetite and mood. Serotonin is naturally produced in the body and kept at a certain level, but SSRIs can increase at level by blocking (inhibiting) the reabsorption (reuptake) of serotonin. Once considered a…

Did you know a child who enters a foster care home is getting abuse from the system? You will think the foster care home is safe and protect children from being neglected and abused. Children live in foster care homes for a few days or few years before getting adopting by a family. Every child who enters the foster care system does not have a mental disorder. Every foster child has his or her issues, but does not mean they have problems. Children enter the foster care system are prescribes…

According to Jasmine (2009), there are many aspects involved in therapeutic communication. The first therapeutic communication skill is listening, which is not only actively listening to a patient but also displaying a readiness to listen and being physically present. This can be shown through good posture, facial expression and eyes contact. This demonstrates a nurse’s genuine interest in the patient. It is important that nurses focus on the patient rather than any tasks at hand to establish a…

MUSIC THERAPY TO DECREASE AGITATION AND ANXIETY IN DEMENTIA PATIENTS 7 Music Therapy to Decrease Agitation and Anxiety in Dementia Patients Overview of Agitation and Anxiety in Patients with Dementia Dementia Dementia is a major neurocognitive disorder that impairs cognitive and intellectual ability, memory, language, reasoning and judgments, which can interfere with daily functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Symptoms of dementia differ among patients;…

An atypical antipsychotic that is used for the treatment of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder that will be discussed is quetiapine (trade name Seroquel). Clinical trials studying the mechanism which quetiapine acts on iontropic glutamate receptors in comparison to haloperidol a convention antipsychotic and clozapine which is also an atypical antipsychotic show significant differences in their effects on NMDA, glutamatergic, and AMPA receptors elucidating possible…

disorganized or catatonic behavior and negative symptoms called. There are two types of drugs, typical and atypical, both tend to block the ladopaminic receptor pathway in the brain. Some side effects include weight gain, agranulocytosis, dyskinesia and tardive akathisia. The aripiprazole is an atypical antipsychotics. Atypical antipsychotics are a heterogeneous group of unrelated, except for the fact that its mechanism of action differs from typical antipsychotic drugs. Many have the common…

Daniel Elia College Writing II Professor Bellinson Advocacy in Mental Illness: Defeating Stigma and Improving the Healthcare System When pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed his airliner into the Alps, killing the 150 passengers on board, people were confused as to his motivations. Investigators went through his records and found that he had been taking neuroleptic medication, and to some extent that they had been involved in the outcome of the incident. Similarly, James Homes, who was behind the…

In the world of psychiatry nearly all drugs in use today were created between 1950 and 1969. It’s hard to imagine with so many drug commercials on TV revealing new and groundbreaking products, that the same products being advertised today were actually created based on chemistry performed more than 60 years ago (Klein, p.259, 2014). The reason behind this is simple. The creation of new drugs based on finding new molecular entities is extremely costly. For the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)…