People who are clinically depressed cannot “will” themselves to feel better or just “snap out of it.” It takes a combination of prescribed medication, Natural remedies, and psychological help to fully treat Depression. One in every three people who are depressed actually seek treatment and 80-90 percent of those who seek treatment feel better within a few weeks. If you do not receive treatment, symptoms can continue for months or even years. I am going to inform you of the different types of Treatment for Depression. Many people choose Antidepressant medication as a treatment because that is the first thing their doctors suggest.
This treatment is administrated to a patient by putting a patient into an unconscious state then passing a current of 0.6 amps through the brain. It works instantly, restoring certain neurotransmitters such as nor epinephrine and serotonin. A further biological treatment is psychosurgery; this is broke sown into two surgical procedures: prefrontal lobotomy and sterotactic psychosurgery. A prefrontal lobotomy is often seen as a last resort because the method is very severe and it has a 6% fatality record. A prefrontal lobotomy is administrated by using a probe that enters the brain through the nose or the eye and it then picks and nerves to deconstruct them.
The midbrain is the part of the brain that controls our body movements. An individual with Parkinson’s disease will usually start to display one or more of the following symptoms: * Trembling of the head , arms , and legs * Stiffness in the body * Poor balance * Difficulty walking * Difficulty talking There is no known cure for Parkinson’s disease, but some of the symptoms can be treated. Dopamine is a very important neurotransmitter in the brain (Stangor, 2010). In regards to Parkinson’s disease, dopamine acts like a messenger between the substantia nigra and the corpus striatum, in
Critically evaluate the extent to which the placebo effect is just a nuisance variable to be controlled The placebo effect is a simulated or a useless treatment for a medical or mental condition which deceives the patient into thinking it is curing them. Usually, these patients will find their health and wellbeing will improve over time, whether it actually does or they just perceive it doesn’t matter, this is called the placebo effect. Common examples of placebos are sugar pills, homeopathy and ‘psychic surgery’. While it sounds as if the deception is the cause of the patient’s improved health, it has been shown that placebos can have a positive effect on a patient who knows they are being given a placebo, when compared with a control group who received a placebo but were not informed of the deception (Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, et al, 2010). The most common procedure for using a placebo is when a patient is given a useless pill and is told that the pill will improve their condition.
For information to be moved from one store to the other in the multi-store model of memory, it is believed a substantial amount of rehearsal is needed especially if the goal is for the information to be stored in long term memory. Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968, 1971) believe that if a part of this process is damaged the whole process will be damaged thereby making it hard to retrieve and recall memories. An example of this is Clive Wearing, who is an important case study for this model of memory. After suffering from an illness, doctors found that his hippocampus was damaged. The hippocampus is an important part of the brain that is used for creating memories.
Secondary outcomes were disability and quality of life measures. 1. The major strengths were that the study eliminated the potential for a differential response bias by using hospital records and not patient self-reporting. It was a successful randomization
Cotton and Devilly states that a psychological debriefing does not need to take effect whenever a traumatic stress situation occurs. Cotton and Devilly that in fact using the crisis intervention stress debriefing (CISD) and the crisis intervention stress management (CISM) could do more harm than good. Cotton and Devilly (2004), propose alternative approaches for responding to trauma survivors, which they consider more effective. But Mitchell states the fact that the authors Cotton and Devilly research was inaccurate that psychological debriefing and CISD are not the same and that psychological debriefing was more of an individual therapy and the CISD was more of group and dealt with traumatic stress following a disaster strike. The fact in which that CISD was to be issue to the person or group only after several weeks or months after the disaster and then only if the person wanted the crisis intervention.
Maria Gomez Health and Social Care Dementia - Drug Treatment Assessment The effects Dementia has to the brain, how drug treatments work, types of drugs and side effects. Dementia can be a slow deterioration of brain function, effecting thought processes, memory and which can have an impact on all bodily functions eventually. Patients with this disease may live on for many years; estimated between 3 and 30years on. It affects all aspects of the patients life. In general, a brain affected by Dementia produces less of some neurotransmitter.
Amanda Suda Mrs. Schmidt Honors English 10 6 March 2013 EMDR and Brainspotting Developed to help patients overcome the symptoms associated with traumatic memories, EMDR and Brainspotting use specific types of focusing and reprocessing to alter the mind. Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., is credited with discovering Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, in 1989. She found that particular eye movements would reduce the intensity of disturbing thoughts in some of her clients. Since Dr. Shapiro’s discovery, EMDR has been changed and further developed into a highly effective treatment for diseases such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Panic Disorders. In 2003, David Grand, Ph.D., discovered
CBT has many advantages in treating depression, such as helping patients recognize and address negative thoughts. However, there are limitations and CBT is not always accepted as a viable treatment option for some. This paper addresses the goals of CBT in treating depression, the advantages and limitations of CBT for depression and explains how the therapy works to treat depression. Depression and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 1 Depression and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy “Since its introduction in the 1970s, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression has become one of the most widely investigated and practiced forms of therapy for depression” (Tang 2005). CBT is a psychological treatment that has been evaluated at length and shown to be effective in most cases of depression.