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    Essay On Hallucinogen

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    Hallucinogen’s should be considered for public use a medical format to treat mental disorders such as bipolar disorder schizophrenia abscess of compulsive disorder and dementia and there are studies to prove these drugs beneficial use no treatment has been established why hallucinogen’s can lend a hand and providing aid for perpetual disorders it comes with a price some side effects can be long term but this may stop someone from using there is also the fear of the unknown of how the drug will affect

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    NACHR Analysis

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    The nAChR is unusual among receptors in that agonist-induced desensitization leads to an up-regulation of the receptor. Ligand interactions occur with various discrete forms of the receptor as originally proposed in 1958 by Katz and Thesleff‚ e.g.‚ open‚ resting‚ and desensitized states that are in equilibrium (Lena and Changeux‚ 1993). In addition to the acetylcholine (ACh) binding site‚ the nAChR‚ like other LGICs‚ e.g.‚ GABAA(benzodiazepine‚ neurosteroid‚ and barbiturate) andN-methyl-D-aspartate

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    Outline and evaluate biological explanations for aggression (24) The biological explanation for aggression states that aggression is innate behavior in people and the environment around them does not cause it. Neurotransmitters in the brain‚ chemicals that allow impulses to be transmitted from one area to another‚ can be used to explain why some people are aggressive. There is evidence to suggest that the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine are linked to aggression‚ low levels of serotonin

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    Nicotine has been used since the 1800s for cultural activities and therapeutic effects. The American Indians used tobacco with nicotine as a powerful insecticide for seed protection and as a human vermifuge. The Shamans used high doses of nicotine to induce catatonic state intoxication which represented symbolic death. Due to the short half-life and quick elimination of nicotine‚ these people returned to full consciousness after a few hours. Nicotine is currently being tested for its medical therapeutic

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    Schizophrenia Reasch Paper

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    Abstact The purpose of this reasch paper is to reaserch and study the mental deisidse schizophrenia on the human brainand‚ its history. The question guideing this reaserch paper is what is schizophrena. The aim of this study is to learn more about the mental disorder that is schizophrena. Their will be various online reasours that support my claim on the mental disorder schizophrenia. Also I will be using an offline source as well to show history and effect on the brain from schizophrenia. I am

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    Chapter 15

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    decade. Treatment for psychosis may require some use of antipsychotic medications. These medications do not cure psychosis but instead they control the symptoms. A 1980s study showed that the medication clozapine controlled treatment resistant symptoms in schizophrenia without causing the extrapyramidal side affects that were common in the older antipsychotic medications. Since that study‚ there have been a number of other antipsychotic medications that have been approved for the treatment of both

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    Huang et al. BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2012‚ 12:1 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6904/12/1 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Effects of paliperidone extended release on the symptoms and functioning of schizophrenia Min-Wei Huang1‚2‚ Tsung-Tsair Yang3‚ Po-Ren Ten4‚ Po-Wen Su5‚ Bo-Jian Wu6‚ Chin-Hong Chan7‚ Tsuo-Hung Lan7‚ I-Chao Liu3‚ Wei-Cheh Chiu8‚ Chun-Ying Li1‚ Kuo-Sheng Cheng1‚9 and Yu-Chi Yeh8* Abstract Background: We aimed to explore relations between symptomatic remission and functionality

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    Also it was found that more than 20% of patients who take neuroleptic drugs for over a year develop the symptoms of tardive dyskinesia. These symptoms include involuntary sucking and chewing and writhing movements of the mouth or face. Atypical antipsychotic drugs (such as clozapine) also combat positive symptoms of schizophrenia but there are claims that they also have beneficial effects on negative symptoms as well.

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    Latuda (Lurasidone) Latuda (lurasidone) is an antipsychotic medication. It works by changing the effects of chemicals in the brain. Latuda is used to treat schizophrenia in adults. It is also used to treat depression associated with bipolar. Latuda is not for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia. This drug may cause heart failure‚ sudden death‚ or pneumonia in older adults with dementia-related conditions. You should not use Latuda if you are allergic to lurasidone. Latuda was formulated

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    PSYA4 : Schizophrenia :Outline and Evaluation points for use with each section 1. Clinical characteristics- this part only requires you to know symptoms(so no evaluation) You need to know: Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterised by a split between thinking and emotion. How long symptoms need to last for someone to be diagnosed(the DSM and ICD have different times) How many positive and negative symptoms someone needs to be diagnosed and a few examples of each Two sub-types of Schizophrenia

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