Affective disorder

800mg/day was iniated. Abnormal movement decreased in intensity over next six months and currently maintaining well only on Donepzil 10mg /day and sodium Valporate 400mg/day for irritability. 2: 55 year old Indian female with diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder was maintaining well on Aripiprazole 15mg/day since 2004. She would get transient dystonias and mild rigidity which would subside on adding trihexiphenydyl . She was sensitive to Lithium, Valporate and developed fatty liver with short course

According to an article on The College Solution by Lynn O 'Shaughnessy there is no variance in the difficulty of the SAT and ACT over the course of the year. However, based on the results of the statistical data there is a slight drop in scores during the winter months. This could be attributed to the colder weather, but there is no definite cause for this drop in scores. Scores also appear to drop during the summer months, this could be attributed to the lack of school during summer break. The author

Depression is an intense and long-term illness, brought on by stressful situations, that have damaging effects on a person’s emotional, physical and cognitive state on a daily basis. It reduces a person’s ability to function physically and socially. Effects include loss of interest, negative thinking, irritability and fatigue. The effects experienced in each state may sometimes overlap with those from another hence intensifying the degree of depression. Circadian Rhythm, also known as the biological

Phototherapy also known as light therapy involves the use of light to treat different diseases and disorders. The light can come from exposure to the sun or from lasers, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), fluorescent lights, and more. It has the ability to treat a wide range of diseases from skin conditions to eye problems to mood and sleep related disorders. Skin conditions that can be treated with light therapy include atopic dermatitis, vitiligo, and psoriasis while retinal conditions like diabetic

An Analysis of Online Health Information from Psychology Today Sarah E. Basuric University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing 1229968 The purpose of this discussion is to analyze an article from Psychology Today entitled A Multitasking Molecule: Melatonin Does a lot More Than Help you Sleep. This discussion will explore the credibility of the site, the purpose of the article, the congruency of content versus audience, the methods used, and the balance of information. Upon viewing

Introduction When a person describes someone, as being “warm” one understands it as a person who is friendly and not as someone who is physically warm. Using temperature as a way to describe a person has been understood as a metaphor, however studies have revealed that there is a connection between the association of warmth and feelings of social belonging (Ijzerman et al., 2012). The belief that our physical world has an influence on our cognition is called the embodiment theory (Chen, Poon & Dewell

Module 3 Emma is a 35-year-old Mexican woman who was born and raised in Chicago. She has three children and two pets currently. She was recently divorced from her husband named Jose, which they were married for 15 years. Growing up Emma didn’t live in the easiest environment, even though Emma was provided with food, clothing, and shelter, she didn’t have the greatest childhood. She was the oldest child of two and would not receive as much as attention from her parents that she craved and needed

expected to go to the penitentiary or to be sentenced to at least house arrest but no, he had been sent to work. He supposed this was worse than the slammer in a way- isolation, no human contact for the whole winter. Perhaps he would get seasonal affective disorder, after all he wouldn’t be seeing the sun for a whole two months. They told him that they were trying out new disciplinary actions. He didn’t buy that for a second. Funny to think that only three months ago he began his sophomore year in college

and depressed and in some cases suicidal. Which is why it goes both ways. Mood is the way someone feels in a given period, whether their happy or sad. Angry or anxious, it all deals with mood. This behavior chain is what is known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and it basically is our moods are based on the weather outside. SAD can be treated with a modality of green therapy, called light therapy, or it can be treated with plain green therapy. Going outside on a bright, sunny day or staying inside

Like any other red-blooded American college student, you see spring break as a glimmering reminder that the darkness of midterm stress and seasonal affective disorder will soon be washed away in beachy sunlight. And lucky for you, it’s finally here! You’ll be interested to know that in my not-too-distant college years I discovered you can judge a person pretty well by their choice of spring break destination. So join me now, readers, as I do just that: judge you. Allow me to preface this piece by