inability to experience pleasure. Side effects are usually relatively minor‚ and blood monitoring is not necessary. Risperdal is the first new front-line treatment option in twenty years. How is Risperdal different from other antipsychotic medications? Conventional antipsychotics such as Haldol‚ Stelazine‚ and Prolixin have treated positive symptoms in many patients for several years. However‚ they do not satisfactorily affect the negative symptoms‚ and they often cause uncomfortable or intolerable
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clinicians should devise individualised treatment plans taking into consideration patient’s background and their most severe and harmful symptomology. Biological treatments Antipsychotic drugs Antipsychotic drugs are typically an efficacious treatment for the positive symptoms of schizophrenia (Foussias & Remington‚ 2010). Most antipsychotics are thought to reduce positive symptoms because they block dopamine receptors. Therefore‚ their effectiveness reinforces the dopamine hypothesis.
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psychological techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties and disorders‚ resolve problems in living‚ or bringing about a personal growth. They do this through discussions and interactions with the therapist. Biomedical Therapy– relies on drugs‚ medications‚ and medical procedures to improve psychological functioning. Therapies Brochure BY: References: Feldman‚ R. S. (2010) Psychology and your life Boston: McGraw-Hill Approaches to treating psychological disorders fall into two
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the people of Bhagans Drugs located in central Trinidad for providing information on the mentioned product. I would also like to thank my tutor Mr. W. Long for coaching us through the syllabus and for being persistent in seeing to it that we hand in our internal assessments early. Problem Statement: The impact of pharmaceutical drugs being used by students of A school in Chagauanas Trinidad and how it impacts on them. Research Questions: 1). How do these drugs affect the studying
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ILLEGAL DRUGS are drugs which have controls on them by a government and are illegal in certain situations (a person is not allowed to have them). A drug is any chemical designed to affect the human body. A psychoactive drug is a drug that affects the brain. Some controlled drugs are allowed if you have permission from a doctor. Other drugs are illegal - meaning you are never allowed to have them. Individual countries and places have different laws about different drugs‚ and there are also international
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Davidson‚ 1991). It had emerged in the 1960s through the observation of the effects of antipsychotic drugs and stimulants that increase dopaminergic activity (Birtwistle & Baldwin‚ 1998) (van Rossum‚ 1966). It will be argued in this paper that while the dopamine hypothesis is compelling there are limitations to be considered. Using the study of first generation antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine and sympathomimetic drug amphetamine it will be asserted that the classical theory does not account for the
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schizophrenia will receive some form of treatment to try and diminish their symptoms. There are drug therapies that help patients to function as well as possible‚ and were founded in the 1950’s when the drugs were given to hospital patients to try and calm their anxiety before surgery but were also found to relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia and so consequently were used for treatment of schizophrenia. Antipsychotics were used to combat the positive symptoms of schizophrenia e.g. hallucinations and auditory
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Drug Overdose Ketline Abel January 13‚ 2011 A drug is any substance that when absorbed in the body alters the normally body function. In pharmacies drugs are a chemical substance in the treatment‚ cure‚ prevention or diagnosis of disease or otherwise physical or mental well being. All drugs have the potential to be misused whether prescribed by a doctor‚ bought over the counter or bought illegally off the streets.
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Syndrome Scale (PANSS)‚ reduces relapse rates of psychosis‚ improve cognitive function in schizophrenia‚ and improve manic symptoms in bipolar disorder (Salwan et al. 2013). Because risperidone has a different side effect profile than typical antipsychotic medications like haloperidol‚ it provides an essential alternative treatment for those people who cannot tolerate the older medications (Suh‚ Greenspan‚ and Choi 2006). Major psychosis may go under-treated because of
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Abiodun Aboaba November 19‚ 2010 NR 160: Mental Health Nursing Sara Bagley Assessments Delusions are fixed false ideas that are not based in reality an example was when John saw his boss telling him to kill his wife and the wife had to quickly ran out of the house. Illusions are false perceptions of
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