There is currently no cure but medication can be taken to stabilise some symptoms for a certain period of time. The Second Most popular type of dementia is Vascular dementia. It occurs when the blood supply carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is interrupted an without it the brain cells die,
The affect of strokes on the body can range between mild dizziness or slight numbness to impaired speech and loss of motor control. Major strokes can block blood flow to the brain to the point where the brain becomes impaired. Once the brain shuts down, it is no longer sending signals to the parts of the body that require brain operation to function. This can impair heart function, which can lead to death in the matter of a few minutes. According the American Heart Association’s posted statistics in Chapter 12 of this week’s reading, out of more than 6.5 million Americans suffer from strokes each year, roughly 150,000 die as a result from the damage.
Psych 101 Brief Psychotic Disorder As the name suggests, brief psychotic disorder is a short-term illness with psychotic symptoms. The symptoms often come on suddenly, but last for less than one month, which the person usually recovers completely. There are three basic forms of brief psychotic disorder: •Brief psychotic disorder with obvious stressor (also called brief reactive psychosis): This type, also called brief reactive psychosis, occurs shortly after and often in response to a trauma or major stress, such as the death of a love one, an accident or assault, or a natural disaster. Most cases of brief psychotic disorder occur as a reaction to a very disturbing event. (disorders
The symptoms of a Cerebral Vascular Accident typically start sudden, in seconds to minutes and in most cases do not progress further. REMEMBER the more quickly you get help the better prognosis you will have. Some of the signs/symptoms of CVA are slurred speech, drooping of one side of the face, weakness of one side of the body, dizziness, blurred vision, and headache. Because each and every person is different and everyone’s body does not react the same symptoms may vary from person to person. Some of the leading causes of CVA are: -High Blood Pressure -Diabetes -Drug Use -Alcohol Abuse -Obesity Statistics say: -35%-50% of people with high blood pressure are at risk of having a stroke.
After months or even years of this deterioration, more obvious signs of disturbance such as delusional ideas or hallucinations, appear. In acute onset, obvious signs such as hallucinations can appear quite suddenly, usually after a stressful event, and the individual shows very disturbed behaviour within a few days. In terms of symptoms that are used in diagnosis and classification, there are positive symptoms, which reflect an excess or distortion of normal functions, hallucinations, delusions, experiences of control and disorganised thinking. There are also negative symptoms which in fact reflect a loss or reduction in normal functions e.g. alogia (the loss of fluent speech) avolition (the loss of motivation) and affective flattening (a reduction in the range of emotional intensity).
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.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as PTSD, can be defined as a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event. Symptoms usually include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the particular event. Not everyone who goes through a traumatic event will develop PTSD. Although a victim of a traumatic event may have trouble coping and adapting after the incident, it’s not considered PTSD until those symptoms become disruptive to everyday life, and last for at least a month after the event. In some cases, the symptoms won’t even appear until months or years after the traumatic experience.
About 75% of people who are diagnosed with dementia will have either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia, or a combination of the two. There less common forms of dementia include dementia with Lewy bodies, fronto-temporal dementia (Pick’s disease), Huntington’s disease, alcohol-related dementias, and HIV/AIDS-related dementia. Alzheimer’s usually affects the elderly population and is a degenerative neurogical disorder and genetic factors are considered the greatest factors in the development of the disease. This conditions begins gradually and worsens progressively over several years. It is caused by nerve cells dying in certain areas of the brain and the connections between the affected nerve cells deteriorate.
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.
Some people recover within a few hours. Other people take a few weeks to recover. In rare cases concussions cause more serious problems. Repeated concussions or a severe concussion may require surgery or lead to long-lasting problems with movement, learning, or speaking. Because of