Showing posts with label Pharmacology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pharmacology. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2020

Does Nutrition really affect our Mental Health & Psychology?



Nutrition psychiatry offers a case study for the diseases associated with Mental Health & psychology. Consistent evidence from many literatures shown that, quality of individual’s diets may cause the common mental illnesses.

Nutritional Psychiatric disorders
  •          Depression
  •          Bipolar disorder,
  •          Schizophrenia and anxiety disorders,
  •          Eating disorders,
  •          Attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD),
  •          Addiction
  •          Autism


New intervention studies are being implemented to reduce these mental health diseases like depression with perfect dietary plans & medications. Some selected nutraceuticals are acting as adjunctive treatments & a major alternative of pharmaceutical medicines for the mental health diseases by claiming psychological benefits.

Nutraceuticals are having extra health benefits including the basic nutritional value found in foods. They can be considered as the non-specific biological therapies used to promote general well-being, control symptoms and prevent malignant processes.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Can drug addiction be treated?


What is drug addiction?

Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by compulsive, or uncontrollable, drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences and changes in the brain, which can be long-lasting. These changes in the brain can lead to the harmful behaviors seen in people who use drugs. Drug addiction is also a relapsing disease. Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop.

The path to drug addiction begins with the voluntary act of taking drugs. But over time, a person's ability to choose not to do so becomes compromised. Seeking and taking the drug becomes compulsive. This is mostly due to the effects of long-term drug exposure on brain function. Addiction affects parts of the brain involved in reward and motivation, learning and memory, and control over behavior. Addiction is a disease that affects both the brain and behavior.


Can drug addiction be treated?

Yes, but it’s not simple. Because addiction is a chronic disease, people can’t simply stop using drugs for a few days and be cured. Most patients need long-term or repeated care to stop using completely and recover their lives.

For more researches & information on drug addiction, take part in “33rd International Conference on Psychiatry &Mental Health”, which has been scheduled on June 25-26, 2020 in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Friday, November 29, 2019

What about “antidepressants,” “psychiatric medications,” and so on? How should I conceptualize the use of those chemicals?


What is SSRI?

Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a course of upper solutions endorsed for the treatment of certain mental disarranges. They are most regularly utilized for discouragement, but may too offer assistance oversee indications of uneasiness disarranges, counting obsessive-compulsive clutter, post-traumatic push clutter, or social uneasiness clutter. In a few occasions, they have moreover been utilized to treat impulse-related disarranges like anorexia or trichotillomania (hair-pulling disorder)—though prove of their adequacy for these disarranges is blended, and they are not a first-line treatment in numerous cases.

What are Psychiatry medications?

A psychiatric pharmaceutical may be a authorized psychoactive sedate taken to apply an impact on the chemical cosmetics of the brain and apprehensive framework. In this way, these medicines are utilized to treat mental ailments. More often than not endorsed in psychiatric settings, these drugs are ordinarily made of engineered chemical compounds. Since the mid-20th century, such drugs have been driving medications for a wide extend of mental disarranges and have diminished the require for long-term hospitalization, hence bringing down the taken a toll of mental health care. The recidivism or re-hospitalization of the rationally sick is at a tall rate in numerous nations and the reasons for the backslides.



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