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physical therapy, and occupational therapy. All this therapy for HD helps with either strength, flexibility, balance and coordination or eating/swallowing/speaking or behavioral or mental things. There are also medicines such as Antidepressants, Antipsychotic drugs, Tetrabenazine, and Mood-stabilizing drugs like Depacon. These medicines can help lessen outbursts, mood-swings, fidgeting, involuntary movement, and other movement and behavior disorders caused by HD. There are many medicines and…

Abstract Catatonia has been historically associated with schizophrenia and was previously understood as a psychomotor symptom under the psychotic disorder. However, catatonia lacks the characteristic delusions, hallucinations, and disturbances in thought of schizophrenia and exhibits closer ties to the communication deficiencies and self-injurious behaviors of autism. Recent research and revised diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 have disassociated the two disorders, categorizing them with two…

Understanding the motive for mental health disorders, and seeing how to treat and remedy them, is a troublesome business. This is for two noteworthy reasons, firstly, there is significant variability within patients with regard to their symptoms, their ways of life, their medication patterns, and their social situation therefore establishing a cause and effective correlation is demanding and requires the study of large and well-characterised participant groups. Furthermore, whilst enhanced…

As an eight year old he was seen by several psychiatrists for being antisocial but was never formally diagnosed with a mental illness. He was given antipsychotic medication that was normally used to treat people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but refused to take it. There are theories that Rodger possibly had aspergers, or sociopathy which are common in serial killers today. In his autobiographical…

This is a 57-year-old female with 8/01/06 date of injury, due to a slip and fall. Diagnosis: chronic pain syndrome primary OA-L ankle and foot, MDD, Single Episode and Generalized Anxiety disorder. 12/08/15 progress note by Mehtani documented that the claimant had been seeing Dr. Desai for a period of time. She has been on a complex medication regimen. The provider is trying to cut down the use of Klonopin and Ambien. The patient was told this was her last prescription. In the meantime, he…

patients, the treatment had devastating effects on others and no long-term cures were found from the utilisation of these treatments (Benjamin & Ludy, 2005). Moreover, the 1950s where characterised by the development of psychotropic drug therapy and antipsychotics in the form of chlorpromazine (thorazine) and haloperidol (Haldol) (Osborn, 2009). When psychotropic drug therapy was paired with other forms of treatment, 70% of patients were reported to have improved and were able to leave hospital…

schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as “a chronic mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis)." His schizophrenia is accompanied by delusional episodes. Treatment for paranoid schizophrenia includes: medications such as antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs, and antidepressants, psychological therapy such as support groups, vocational training, hospitalization, and electroconvulsive…

Home visits are a typical part of research studies especially when it involves the developmental stages of children. Recently, when entering a participant’s home and preparing to perform the Bayley’s Scales of Infant Development, it is obvious the participant (a thirty month old child) was not interested in the visitors whom just entered her home. However, it is apparent that the child is intrigued by the toys being unpacked and quickly zero-in’s on small red blocks (just big enough to fit…

What if we had to learn social rules that everyone else seemed to already know? What if we had to work at understanding complex emotions in others and ourselves? What if even this understanding didn’t help us to know what to do when we felt embarrassed, jealous or empathetic? What if no matter how much social interactions we learn, it keeps getting more complex every passing year? This is what it’s like to have autism. This is a horrible complex disorder that many people are force to adapt to…

How does one tell the difference between someone who is mentally ill and is a serial killer? The answer could never truly be told. Mental illnesses are defined as the change in one’s mood, thoughts and actions, while a serial killer looks for the indulgence of killing multiple people. Even though some cases of serial killers were known to have a mental illness that doesn’t mean everyone who is mentally ill is a serial killer. Even though most people think that having a mental disability makes…