Essays Tagged: "Antipsychotic"

Schizophrenia research paper

he dopamine theory of schizophrenia is based on the action of the neurolepticdrugs, better known as antipsychotic drugs. Neuroleptics are the drugs of choice fortreating the symptoms of schizophrenia. ...

(5 pages) 449 2 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Schizophrenia: Explained and Treatments

includes electroconvulsive treatment (shock therapy), psychosurgery, psychotherapy, and the use of antipsychotic medications (Torrey 5). Shock therapy is the application of electrical current to the ... te to people not taking their medication, and relapse (Long).Haldol is the most commonly prescribed antipsychotic drug to treat schizophrenia. Abbott Laboratories is presently in the process of testin ...

(8 pages) 261 0 4.3 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Schizophrenia

Human Services Annual >92 page 1). The primary medication for treatment of schizophrenia are the antipsychotic medications, also known as neuroleptic. These medications do not cure schizophrenia bu ... s neuroleptic. These medications do not cure schizophrenia but reduce the symptoms. All widely used antipsychotic medications are equal in treating the symptoms of schizophrenia; however, individuals ...

(6 pages) 167 0 4.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

The essay is about the mental diorder, schizophrenia. Including who first discovered the illness, theories on what causes it, symptoms, treatment, and history of schizophrenia.

esis. The main support for the theory that too much dopamine causes schizophrenia, is the fact that antipsychotic medications, which are used to treat schizophrenia, block dopamine receptors. The medi ... s, not exclusively in schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia are not the only ones who respond to antipsychotic medication.Antipsychotic medication may not significantly affect the negative symptoms ...

(8 pages) 385 1 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Bi-Polar Disorder

lar is treated usually with medication. Lithium, Mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants, Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and Benzodiazepines are the different medications that can help this particular diso ...

(1 pages) 33 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Schizophrenia

(3 pages) 135 5 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Bipolar Disease

stated that his medications were making him fat and nervous. Mr. Smith has been treated with novel antipsychotic drugs. Within five weeks of the cessation of his medications he was arrested and jaile ... mood swings?Patients often pay a high price in side effects for the relief provided by conventional antipsychotics. "Weight gain may be the most serious drawback of the novel drugs...like the extrapyr ...

(2 pages) 29 1 3.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Schizophrenia

lly emerges in the teens or 20s. In women,the onset typically is in the 20s or early 30s.Treatments:Antipsychotic medications, formerly known as neuroleptics, are thecornerstone of treatment. Until th ... weremuch more effective in controlling positive symptoms than negativesymptoms. A new generation of antipsychotics provides more effectivemanagement of both positive and negative symptoms. These newer ...

(4 pages) 164 4 4.8 Jan/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

The Correlation Between Schizophrenia and Suicide

y are related to schizophrenia."Between 20 and 40% of patients with schizophrenia receiving typical antipsychotic medications attempt suicide, and the completed suicide rate ranges from 9 to 12.9% ove ... o the issue came up. "Clozapine, a dibenzodiazepine, is substantially different from other, typical antipsychotic medications. It is chemically related to loxapine, but has a very different pharmacolo ...

(3 pages) 47 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Schizophrenia.

a preferred treatment of schizophrenia for many years. The primary treatment has been geared toward antipsychotic medication, such as phenothicayines, butyrophenones, and thioxanthenenes. These variou ... ase for tapering"Psychiatrists are faced with a very important question, how to use neuroleptic, or antipsychotic drugs to treat schizophrenia. Unfortunately one rather severe side effect of the drugs ...

(5 pages) 68 1 4.8 Oct/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Models and perspectives of care /biopsychosocial

tivity of chemicals that transmit messages in the brain. The chemical they work on is dopamine. All antipsychotic drugs can cause side effects but these can be different for each patient.The Mental He ...

(13 pages) 353 0 4.6 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Schizophrenia

f the brain used in regulating movement and in thinking increase in size for schizophrenics who use antipsychotic drugs, but not for those who do not use them. Though no single change in brain structu ...

(4 pages) 119 0 4.3 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Schizophrenia

(2 pages) 29 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Implementing Medication Information in a Forensic Setting

cussing those diagnosed with schizophrenia.Literature highlights the increase in relapse rates when antipsychotic medication is not adhered to (Marder et al, 1999, Oehl et al, 2000) and in 1995 an ext ... did withdraw were three times more likely to experience a relapse than those that adhered to their antipsychotic medication as prescribed.Madden (2007) stated that medication non concordance is an is ...

(17 pages) 59 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Psychiatric Disorders, Diseases, and Drugs

der, and an identical twin holds a 48% chance (Pinel, 2007).Dopamine hypothesis was discovered when antipsychotic drugs started causing muscular tremors-identical to Parkinson's disease. Researchers t ... orized that schizophrenia results from excessive activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine, because antipsychotic drugs remove symptoms of schizophrenia, yet cause certain muscular problems (Pinel, 20 ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.3 Mar/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Schizophrenia

ed "on both clinical research and experience (Schizophrenia, 2002)." Some treatment options include antipsychotic medications, hospitalization, and counseling. According to the mental health Associati ... a more functional and efficient lifestyle by lessening the symptoms of schizophrenia. And although antipsychotic drugs aren't the best treatment available for schizophrenic patients, they are not sur ...

(4 pages) 32 0 4.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Discuss the factors thought to underline schizophrenia

ics have abnormally high levels of dopamine. Additional support comes from the effectiveness of the antipsychotic (such as chlorpromazine) drugs that reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking t ... amine hypothesis is not a complete explanation, and this can be seen in the efficiency and speed of antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs are also known to be only effective in controlling positive ...

(7 pages) 2 0 0.0 Apr/2013

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders