Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experience‚ to think logically‚ to have normal emotional responses to others‚ and to behave normally in social situations. Approximately 1% of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime‚ and more than 2 million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency
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What Is Bipolar Disorder? I.Writebol COMM/156 5/25/2012 M.Clark “What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression‚” once said William Maxwell "Max" Aitken. Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain that has yet to be unraveled; it causes many mood swings that can happen at a moment’s notice without a word. With many mental illnesses in order to diagnose them it takes time
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Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs Marah Lacey-Woods PSY/240 05/05/2013 Dr. RAYMOND MC CLENEN Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs Schizophrenia is a chronic‚ severe‚ and disabling brain disorder that has affected people throughout history. Schizophrenia is a group of severe brain disorders in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations‚ delusions‚ and disordered thinking and behavior. About
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Schizophrenia – A Biopsychosocial Model Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by a wide variety of symptoms. The term schizophrenia has been subjected to many misinterpretations since first introduced. The disorder is so common and the symptoms so peculiar the term schizophrenia has become part of society’s standard vocabulary. Schizophrenia is chronic‚ progressive‚ and considered one of the most severe and frequent forms of mental disorders afflicting one percent of the population
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With psychosis having such a strong biological component‚ antipsychotic medications are often crucial for the resolution of positive symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations (Bonny & Stickley‚ 2008). It is highly recommended that there should be a vast emphasis on the use of professional-facilitated person-centred
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Clinical Guidelines Introduction This assignment is focused on a schizophrenia clinical guideline. According to NICE (2009) Clinical guidelines are “recommendations on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS in England and Wales”. Clinical guidelines are based on the best available evidence. Guidelines help healthcare professionals in their work‚ but they do not replace their knowledge and skills. The chosen guideline is called core interventions
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Report David Jaime Health Careers High School Abstract The first drug that I am researching is Abilify or the generic name aripiprazole. Aripiprazole was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration on November 15‚ 2002 as a atypical antipsychotic. RxLists (2015) states the “empirical formula to be C23H27Cl2N3O2”. http://www.rxlist.com/abilify-drug.htm Abilify can be administered orally or injected(parenteral). Via the oral route Abilify can come as a tablet or a solution. Through the parenteral
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The only downside to these drugs was the unpleasant side effects that came with them‚ such as muscle stiffness and tremor. In 1990‚ clozapine‚ the first “atypical antipsychotic drug” was introduced in the United States. The risk of movement disorders for this new drug was significantly lower‚ but there is the potential of a blood disorder‚ agranulocytosis‚ loss of white blood cells requiring a blood test every one to
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Since I’ve chosen to major in psychology‚ I’ve chosen to do my paper on something that pertains to my major. In this case the mental disorder schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severely disabilitating disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone (Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions. In fact‚ forty percent of the beds in American mental hospitals
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Thomas Szasz once said‚ if you talk to God‚ you are praying; if God talks to you‚ you have schizophrenia. It is a terrible disorder that affects many people around the world. Arguably the most famous person with schizophrenia is Nobel Prize (1994) and American Mathematicians Society ’s Leroy P. Steel Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (1999) winner‚ John Nash. Paranoid Schizophrenia can be a crippling illness. Its sufferers may not be able to determine what is real and what is not. According
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