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being physically inactive, and do not meet the minimal physical activity recommendations.6 Factors that contribute to this populations’ sedentary lifestyle include the negative symptoms associated with this illness, as well as the sedating effects antipsychotic medications.3 Poor dietary choices are related to lower socioeconomic status (SES) and cognitive deficits.3 Fresh produce and healthier food options can be expensive, therefore individuals of a low SES opt towards premade processed foods that are

onset of symptoms and subsequent treatment. She was a college aged woman at the time, who seemingly randomly began “hearing voices from the sky”. She chose to seek help and was prescribed clozapine, which is considered to be the most effective antipsychotic currently on the market (Moghaddam & Javitt, 2012). When this treatment was shown to be uneffective, Naomi

Alzheimer 's is a slow and debilitating disease that generates multiple problems with cognitive skills including; memory, thinking and behavior. (MedlinePlus, 2015) It is especially painful for friends and family members who see their loved ones progressively lose their memory and ability to function as they normally have. Symptoms typically develop gradually and progressively get worse over time, becoming severe enough to put the person afflicted with the disease unable to complete daily tasks

A quick overview of schizophrenia that I learned in the class was that it is a chronic brain disorder that affects the way that person goes about life such as, the way they think, feel and behave isn’t normal. About one in one hundred Americans are diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia affects men and women equally, usually occurs between the ages fifth- teen to thirty. People with schizophrenia withdrawal themselves from reality as in they tend to hear or see things that don’t exist and at

This research looks at the disadvantages of pediatric patients with schizophrenia taking neuroleptic (nerve-seizing) or antipsychotic medications. The goal is to show the risks factors pertaining to the drugs and other alternatives to reduce the risk of causing a young child’s life into a dull and zombie one. This has been done by researching data and life experiences such as Morgan Luck and her mother Danielle examination with early-onset schizophrenia (EOS) and the applications that it involves

Researchers have found that, in small sample sets, animal-assisted therapy has positive effects for patients with schizophrenia (Chu, Liu, Sun, & Lin, 2009; Kovacs, Kis, & Rozsa, 2004; Nathans-Barel, Feldman, Berger, Modai, & Silver, 2005). Schizophrenia ranges in severity, but all individuals with schizophrenia have similar symptoms. One of the core symptoms is anhedonia, which is the loss of the ability to experience pleasure (Nathans-Barel et al., 2005). This is one of the reasons why patients

were forced to take several strong antipsychotic drugs and mood stabilizers already in their

Improving Schizophrenia with Risperdal Mental illness affects millions of people every day. One of the most debilitating forms of mental illness is schizophrenia. The Oxford dictionary defines schizophrenia as; A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

call goes “My child is having one of his psychotic episodes and I don’t know what to do!” A mother’s plea for help as she watches her teenage son’s moody episodes unfold; what is mother to do? Since then, the teenager has been prescribed several antipsychotic drugs such as Aripiprazole (Abilify), thereafter, Risperidone (Risperdal) and a sleuth of others, but none curtails or controls his mood disorder until he is prescribed Depakote. Confused and perplexed, Depakote is an anti-seizure and an anti-psychotic

Describe and evaluate biological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by distorted thinking, impaired emotional responses, poor interpersonal skills and a distortion of reality. It is the most common of psychotic disorders that, in most countries around the world, affects around 1 per cent of the population. In terms of explanations for the disorder, two central types of explanations arise – psychological explanations and biological explanations