Bipolar disorder is one of the oldest known illnesses. Extensive research reveals that there was some mention of the symptoms in early medical records‚ which date back to the 1600’s. Bipolar was first noticed as far back as the second century. Aretaeus of Cappadocia (a city in ancient Turkey) first recognized some symptoms of mania and depression‚ and felt they could be linked to each other. Aretaeus’s findings went unnoticed and unsubstantiated until 1650‚ when a scientist named Richard Burton wrote
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CHAPTER 1 PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND A. INTRODUCTION A mental disorder is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual‚ and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Mental disorder has a wide scope of illness for centuries. It has many levels of illness and most of the illness are common conditions faced by individuals either they noticed it or not. In Malaysia‚ Ministry of Health did a survey and
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Psychiatric Disorders‚ Diseases‚ and Drugs Conditions that are characterized by the individual presenting with behaviors that are defined as abnormal are termed psychiatric disorders o psychiatric disease. An abnormal behavior is one that has been defined within the field of mental health as being atypical or unusual. Those patients who are diagnosed as suffering psychiatric disorders or diseases may have altered perceptions of reality or have impaired abilities to interpret reality. This alteration
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Pharmacological Treatment of Medical Disorder Student’s Name Institution’s Name Introduction Mental disorder is an illness of the mind that is characterized by disorganization and confusion in the mind. Mental disorder is by far not realizable early enough‚ for early realization occurs in very minimal instances. In a survey by Harding‚ De Arango‚ Baltazar‚ Climent‚ Ibrahim ‚ Ladrido-Ignacio‚ and Wig (2009)‚ the existence of the ailment
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FACTITIOUS DISORDER Facticious means artificial or unnatural‚ a definition that could not be more appropriate. People who suffer from factitious disorder (FD) “are great con men or con women‚ although what they obtain through their conning most people would far rather not have”[1]. The earliest accounts of factitious disorders are recorded in the times of Galen‚ a Roman physician in the second century A.D. The term ‘factitious’ itself‚ is derived from a book‚ published in 1843 by Gavin‚
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COMMUNICATION DISORDERS What is Communication Disorder? • a speech‚ language and hearing disorder which refers to problems in communication and in related areas such as oral motor function. • The symptoms vary depending on the particular type of communication disorder‚ but they generally center around problems communicating. • Children with communication disorders have deficits in their ability to exchange information with others. COMMUNICATION • a multidimensional dynamic process that
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have a eleven month old lovely son and I am studying to be an Medical assistant at Forrest Junior College. On behalf of this I am requesting to be reinstated to Forrest Junior College for this coming semester. I am currently on academic suspension for not meeting the maximum time frame for completion. There have been semesters that I haven’t tried my hardest to complete my courses as I should’ve been prepared. At Forrest Junior College‚ I have learned and experienced many roles as a student attending
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Helen B. Balois Cognitive disorder Cognitive disorders are a category of mental health disorders that primarily affect learning‚ memory‚ perception‚ and problem solving‚ and include amnesia‚ dementia‚ and delirium. While anxiety disorders‚ mood disorders‚ and psychotic disorders can also have an effect on cognitive and memory functions‚ the DSM-IV-TR does not consider these cognitive disorders‚ because loss of cognitive function is not the primary (causal) symptom. Causes vary between the different
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Blood Disorders HCA/240 The purpose of plasma is a fluid that is separated from the blood. It looks like urine or a yellowish fluid or substance. Plasma is used to treat many diseases and conditions. (CSLPlasma‚ 2014) One specific treatment that plasma has been used for is congenital and acquired primary immune deficiency. (CSLPlasma‚ 2014) Plasma has also been used on burns and fluid replacement therapy. The purpose of red blood cells is to provide the body with
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Abstract Bipolar Disorder is a mental illness in which a person’s mood alternates between extreme mania and depression. Bipolar disorder is also called manic-depressive illness. In a related disorder called cyclothymic disorder (sometimes called Bipolar III)‚ a person’s mood alternates between mild depression and mild mania. Some people with cyclothymic disorder later develop full-blown bipolar disorder. Rates of bipolar disorder are similar throughout the world. At least fifteen percent of people
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