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Anti Psychotic Drugs People With Schizophrenia
1,079 wordsSchizophrenia is a serious, chronic mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality and disturbances of thought, mood, and perception. Schizophrenia is the most common and the most potentially sever and disabling of the psychosis, a term encompassing several severe mental disorders that result in the loss of contact with reality along with major personality derangements. Schizophrenia patients experience delusions, hallucinations and often lose thought process. Schizophrenia affect...
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Effects Of Cannabis Withdrawal Symptoms
1,790 wordsCLAIM FOUR: "Marijuana causes long-term changes in the brain similar to those seen with other drugs of abuse... " Back in the 1970 s, animal experiments led to groundless fears that marijuana blew holes in brain tissue. The experiments organisations like NIDA now fund are more sophisticated but the controversy still rages. George Koob, an addiction researcher from The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, claims the new message from the animals is simple: "The more we discover abou...
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Prefrontal Cortex Identical Twins
1,269 wordsSchizophrenia is a disease that has plagued societies around the world for centuries. It is characterized by the presence of both positive and negative symptoms. (Positive symptoms-altered behaviors ie excited motor activity, hallucinations, incoherent thoughts and speech, negative symptoms - the lack of behavior ie emotion lack of speech, and lack of emotion. Not all schizophrenic patients will exhibit all of these symptoms. There has been much debate as to the causes of schizophrenia. While so...
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York N Y Play An Important Role
1,781 words... like result when the test animals are given drugs which selectively bind to sigma and / or dopamine reuptake sites (Svennson, 1995). Second, 'psychotomimetic effects similar to those induced by PCP can be induced by ketamine, a related arylcyclohexamine derivative' (Sevvenson, 1995). This is a particulary strong point of evidence, especially when coupled with the following point: A dosage of ketamine ten times that of PCP is required in order to induce the same effect (Halberstad, 1995). Thi...
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Studies Have Shown Negative Symptoms
1,132 wordsFor decades, psychologists have devised many treatment regimes for schizophrenia patients, with varying degrees of success and effectiveness. There have been great obstacles in their efforts, mainly due to the fact that patients of schizophrenia lack insight into their impaired conditions. Often patients refuse treatment of any kind because they do not perceive any mental illness associated with their behaviour. In particular, individuals suffering from paranoid schizophrenia regard therapy as i...
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New Research Indicates That Drug Therapy Is More
1,170 words... even-fifties the most commonly used method of treatment for schizophrenia patients was the prescription of anti-psychotic drugs known as phenothiazines, and derivatives such as; chlorpromazine and butyrophenones (Davison & Neale, 1998). All of these were highly effective in treating the positive symptoms of schizophrenia but not as effective for treating the negative symptoms. As well, these drugs were well known for the side effects that they produced such as dizziness, muscle stiffness...
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People With Depression Negative Symptoms
604 wordsThere are also some cases, which suggest that the disease is caused by damage to the brain during early childhood or even in the womb. Since 1935, reports have shown that individuals with schizophrenia have unusual fingerprint and palm-print patterns. In the past, it was thought that the design of fingerprints was determined entirely by genetics. However, it is now known that disturbances in the first few months of a babys development in the womb can alter the fingerprint pattern. Not only are t...
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People With Depression Auditory Hallucinations
1,266 wordsSchizophrenia There are many psychological disorders and diseases that affect todays families. One particular disease is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is quite common in mental hospitals; however, until recently, the disease was a mystery to the medical society. Although it is a cruel disease, there are rays of hope, such as, research, treatment, and the organizations of families and friends. Along with being a mystery to the medical community, schizophrenia is also a mystery to society in genera...
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Schizophrenic Patients Patient
3,015 wordsPhil- 229 Trinity College In his book, The Paradoxes of Delusion, Louis Sass attempts to rebut two of most prevalent beliefs of the schizophrenic person. He argues that by viewing the schizophrenic delusions in light of solipsism, a philosophy of existence, the schizophrenic may seem far more understandable. Through his comparison of the schizophrenic and solipsist realities, Sass explains that not only is schizophrenia understandable, but that there exists within the structure of schizophrenic ...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs People With Schizophrenia
1,653 wordsSchizophrenia, a disease of the brain, is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man. It has been misunderstood for a long time and has received relatively little attention. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, but a very rare and different disorder. It has an estimated one percent to one and a half percent of the U. S. population is being diagnosed with it over the course of their lives. Schizophrenia has a biological basis and is not caused by bad parenti...
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