This paper will discuss the relationship between two commonly abused recreational drugs and schizophrenia. Cocaine and marijuana are two of the most commonly used drugs in the country, and have very different effects on brain function. ... This correlation is likely to do the use of drugs whose use is linked with marijuana use, amphetamines in particular. ... Schizophrenia is commonly believed to be linked with an oversensitivity to dopamine, which would cause the person suffering from it to feel somewhat the same way as a person who abused cocaine. ... Although both of these drugs are p...

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Some symptoms that are normal alone but when had at once can be crucial to a diagnosis of MPD are depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, sleep disorders, insomnia, night terrors, sleep walking, panic attacks, phobias, flashbacks, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, eating disorders, head aches, amnesia, time loss, trances, and out of body experiences (Sidran 6). ... They believe it is "too" rare. ... Clients have no choice but to believe the diagnosis. ... Many doctors do not believe it is real. ...

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Albeit, one may have inherited a disposition towards the disease, but never develop it because it is not triggered (for example, by illegal drugs). ... "The scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health believe that environmental factors combined with genetic predisposition lead to the development of schizophrenia" (NIMH, 2). ... Specifically, they believed that people with schizophrenia had an excess number of dopamine receptors. ... Support for this hypothesis is provided from illegal drugs such as cocaine and amphetamines. ... The difference between these two groups is that indi...

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The delusions often involve the victim believing they are being watched or that people can read their minds. Sometimes schizophrenics believe that they can control the minds of others. Other times they believe they are being attacked or persecuted. ... Generally if a person has improved on a certain drug before, or if someone in the patient's family was helped by it, the drug is likely to respond to the individual. ... There are those who believe antipsychotics to be true wonder drugs. ...

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Many people outside the mental health profession believe that schizophrenia refers to a "split personality". ... They may believe that their thoughts are being controlled by others or that everyone knows what they are thinking. ... They may not know the voice, or they may believe it is the voice of God, the Devil, or a friend. ... Not everyone responds to these drugs. ... This drug appears to have fewer side effects than some of the anti-psychotic drugs. ...

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Researchers believe that many of the symptoms of schizophrenia are a result of excess of dopamine in the brain. ... Delusions are beliefs of a paranoid or bizarre nature that are untrue, but believed by the person experiencing them to be very real. Some people who experience delusions believe that they are being controlled by something besides themselves or believe that people are inserting or removing ideas, or listening to their thoughts. ... If a drug is low potency, more of it is needed to relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia. A high potency drug can be taken in smaller amounts to be ef...

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(Campbell) Some people believe that schizophrenia is a group of similar disorders, while others believe that it is one disorder with many different symptoms and types.... Some people believe that Schizophrenia is a chemical imbalance in the brain, called the dopamine hypothesis. ... Yet others believe there is a whole lot more to it then that. ... Antipsychotic drugs, have been the cornerstone of treatment for many years. ... In short, with the help of the drugs, psychotherapy is possible. ...

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Some researchers believe that problems with these genes can cause schizophrenia. ... Scientists believe that schizophrenics have higher levels of dopamine in their brain than unaffected people. ... Not everyone responds to these drugs. ... This drug appears to have fewer side effects than some of the anti-psychotic drugs. ... Researchers anticipate massive progress on the treatment for schizophrenia in the future and believe hospitalization will be a thing of the past....

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Although there is no hard evidence correlating energy drinks with psychological relapses, there is reason to believe that high amounts of caffeine can exacerbate underlining disorder. ... The patients were not to partake in energy drink consumption and illegal drug use. ... It is said that high levels of caffeine can mitigate how well bipolar drugs will work for the patient. After release from the rehab center, two of the three patients stayed abstinent from energy drink, drug use and maintained mental stability. ... We cannot single out caffeine consumption. if there was one subject who di...

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You don't know who or what to believe you"re at odds with reality. ... The Dopamine Hypothesis presents the notion that an overdose of dopamine could be involved in causing schizophrenia, this information is derived from the use of drugs that block dopamine receptors in schizophrenic patients. ... Drugs with selectivity for the D4 dopamine receptor such as clozapine or olanzapine can be particularly effective, and so this receptor subtype may play a critical role (Kuno, & Schizophrenia A Tragic 7 Rothbard, 2002). ... Ketamine and phencyclidine are drugs that affect the NMDA receptor...

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Most scientists believe that schizophrenia is a biological disease caused by genetic factors, an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, structural brain abnormalities or abnormalities in the prenatal environment. ... Support for this hypothesis comes from anti-psychotic drugs, which reduce psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia by blocking brain receptors for dopamine. ... Despite these findings, many experts believe that excess dopamine activity alone cannot account for schizophrenia. ... Most physicians use anti- psychotic drugs to treat people with schizophrenia. ... The drugs reduce or eliminat...

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The patients may believe that these "voices" carry messages from important people, or even from God. ... Viral infections, drug abuse, or trauma during birth may increase a person's risk of developing the disease. ... Since then, scientists have developed drugs that block the action of dopamine, a neurotransmitter, on certain nerve cells. ... Scientists have developed other drugs that act on a different neurotransmitter called serotonin. These newer drugs control the symptoms of schizophrenia with fewer side effects. ...

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They may also experience delusions of reference, in which a neutral environmental event is believed to have a personal or special meaning. Delusions of grandeur may be experienced, with the person believing that they are a famous person such as Jesus Christ, or they may believe that they have unusual powers that no one else has. They may also experience delusions of control where they believe their thoughts and actions are being controlled by outside forces, or that they can control other people's thoughts. ... In addition to that, the presence of other disorders, such as drug reactions o...

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Many psychologists believe disorganized thoughts are the result of a breakdown in selective attention (Myers, 2001, pg 556). ... Once the break with the social world has occurred, schizophrenics begin to believe that external events are somehow related to them; they experience delusions. ... The patient believes, that the voices are shouting at him, cursing obscenities, or making accusations at him. ... In some cases, these psychiatrists believe that "the patient is hearing voices when they are actually just hearing themselves talk." ... (Gleitman, 1999, page 778) Many researchers believe tha...

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One treatment is drug therapy and certain drugs work to alleviate particular symptoms. ... If the distinction of positive and negative symptoms cannot be made, research and drug development would be invariably complex. ... Also, in some instances, multiple positive symptoms of schizophrenia like hallucinations and delusions can benefit from a single antipsychotic drug. When examining the contribution of newer atypical antipsychotic drugs, Curran et al. (2002) states "the newer atypical drugs are effective for the treatment of both positive and negative symptoms- (p. 80). ... In other words,...

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The most likely explanation is chemical imbalance, or exposure to drugs or other substances. ... Visual hallucinations are hard to believe, seeing things like leprechauns, dragons, and little green men, but just because we don't see it doesn't mean they"re making it up. ... Drugs are the savior of schizophrenics everywhere. Drugs like Risperdal keep schizophrenic outbreaks to a minimum. ...

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There are many new types of treatments used, such as drug therapy and psychological therapy. ... In the 19th century mental illness was believed to be caused by physical problems. ... Drugs, including alcohol, tobacco and street drugs themselves do not cause schizophrenia. ... Drugs can also create schizophrenia like symptoms in otherwise healthy individuals. ... They may also may have a strong religious drive, or believe they have a personal mission to right the wrongs of the world. ...

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It will explore the understandings of how depressions was discovered and what people believed triggered it. University Health Services at Berkley believes there are 3 common symptoms of depression; Physical, Behavioral, and Emotional. ... Most psychologist believe depression results from an interaction between stressful life events and a person's biological and psychological vulnerabilities (Historical Understandings of Depression, Nemade, Ph.D., Reiss, Ph.D., and Dombeck, Ph.D. 2007). ... Stopping abruptly can cause "antidepressant discontinuation syndrome" which is much lik...

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Schizophrenia is considered to be the most costly, severe, chronic and devastating psychiatric illness that presents the most challenging mental health problem (Andreasen, 1989; Carson, 1996). Considered the leading public health problem, the lifetime prevalence rate is high at approximately 1% of the population; the occurring rate is one in 4000 diagnosed per year with severe morbidity and significant mortality rates linked to a high numbers of suicides (Andreasen & Carpenter, 1993; Silverstein et al., 2006). Bleuler's unique concept, that the defining features of schizophrenia are the s...

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For example, a person may believe that aliens or spies are controlling his or her behavior, mind and thoughts. ... In these cases, people believe that they are someone important like a president, king or prime minister. 2. ... Medication: Drugs to treat schizophrenia are called antipsychotic medications. This type of drug was first developed in the 1950s. ... The drugs are not a cure for the disease, but they do reduce the symptoms. 2. ...

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They may see or hear things that don't exist, speak in strange or confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel like they're being constantly watched. ... According to Comer (2011) "Antipsychotic drugs reduce symptoms in at least 65 percent of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia" (Comer, 2011, p. 377). There are many drugs used to treat this disorder. Comer states, "The most effective and widely used of these new drugs are clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, quettiapine, ziprasidone, and aripiprazole" (Comer, 2011, p. 379). These drugs ar...

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Psychology Final Chapter 13 - Stress, Coping, and Health * The biopsychosocial model holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors * Health psychology is concerned with how psychosocial factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and with the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness * Stress is any circumstance that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities * Frustration occurs in situations where the pursuit of some goal is t...

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Sometimes it will go as far as to believing that they have special powers, and most are very paranoid, always thinking that someone is watching or spying on them. ... These types of drugs are the best treatment available now, however, they do not "cure" schizophrenia or ensure that there will be no further psychotic episodes. The dosage of this medication is individualized for each patient, since people may vary a great deal in the amount of drug needed to reduce symptoms without producing troublesome side effects. A large majority of people show a substantial deal of improvement when using th...

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There is no known cure for the disease but the majority of schizophrenia suffers respond well to drug treatment and are able to live independently. ... It is believed that too much dopamine occurring in our brains causes many of the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, including delusions, hallucinations and catatonia. ... It is also true that when phenothiazines (a drug that reduces dopamine) is given to schizophrenic patients, their positive symptoms are reduced, but the side affects are symptoms resembling Parkinson's disease. ... Drug treatment is not always successful; it can he...

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Although the cause of schizophrenia is unknown, researchers believe that you have a higher risk if; it passed down through family, other family members have a disease like schizophrenia, being born in the winter, complications or brain injury during birth, being exposed to viral infections during pregnancy, or a substance abuse problem. Those people who develop symptoms slowly, don't receive treatment, misuse drugs and alcohol, live in industrialized countries, are male, live in social isolation, or have poor family support, may be at greater risks for recurring relapses or a poor progn...

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