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Now in this post we would learn several types of drug therapies. Neuroleptic drugs are the drugs that modify psychotic symptoms.  Some of the categories of these drugs are mentioned below: 1. Antianxiety Agents:- These drugs treat anxiety also called minor tranquilizers and sedatives.  Examples of these agents are barbiturates and drugs such as diazepam, which is also known as Valium and chlordiazepoxide hydrochloride also known as Librium. 2. Antidepressants:- An imbalance in the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain is the main cause for the basis of depression. For producing feelings of well-being of reverse depressive symptoms these drugs are used. For an example generally fluoxetine also called Prozac is commonly prescribed for antidepressant. This Prozac allows the passage of serotonin also known as a neurotransmitter into nerve cells. So that it improves mood, mental alertness, physical activity, and sleep patterns. In common most of the medications were prescrib...

As a medical transcription students you must know the 50 states of United States .  Here is the list of States of United States: Alabama Arizona Alaska Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming In the next lesson we will learn about more psychological therapies.  Okay.  Come on. To go to the next lesson from here please click the link below To go to the prior lesson from here please click the link below http://learn-free-medical-transcription.blogspot.com/2010/04/types-of-therapies-lesson-185.html...

Now in this lesson we will learn about the remaining therapies.  Psychoanalysis:- A neurologist by named Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis and also interested to give treatment for neurotic or hysterical patients. This therapy seeks to induce behavior and resolve internal conflicts by treating patients to bring to their unconscious emotions to the surface. Through techniques such as free associations, fantasies, and dreams from which the analyst explains the unconscious conflicts , the patient is able to bring to awareness his or her unconscious emotional conflicts and thus can overcome these problems. The conflicts including the contributing to resistance and those involving transference onto the analyst of distorted reactions, psychoanalytic treatment can briefly describe how the patients unconsciously stimulated by experience of symbolic reactions. Sex Therapy:- To overcome sexual dysfunctions such as frigidity which is also known as sexual response in women, impotenc...

In this post we will learn about the types of psychotherapies.    1. Behavior Therapy:- This changing behavior patterns without getting discussed internal mental state deals with behavior therapy. The skinner's radical behaviorism accepted as a part of behavior to improve the internal state was through environmental manipulation. The basis of the behavior therapy based is on the principles of classical conditioning and is used to relieve anxiety and treat phobia. 2. Family Therapy: - This therapy is referred to couple and family therapy. It is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples of relationships to have a change and development. To look changes of interaction among family members it becomes as very important factor in psychological health. The treatment of entire family to resolve and understand their conflicts and problems. 3. Group Therapy:- A group of patients with the same problems of gain-insight into their own personalities through dis...

In this post we would learn about the remaining drug abused substances. Hallucinogens:- Hallucinogens are the classes of psychoactive drugs which have common that can cause subjective changes in emotion, thought, perception and consciousness. Examples of hallucinogens are lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline (peyote), and phencyclidine (PCP). The hallucinogens are generally episodic because of their psychoactive effects are so frequent, potent use may lead to marked tolerance. Deliriants such as diphenhydramine and atropine may cause hallucinations in the proper sense. Opioids:- This group of drugs induces both heroin and morphine and synthetic drugs with action of morphine such as codeine and methadone. These compounds are generally prescribed as analgesics, anesthetics, or cough-suppressants. The same symptoms of opioid intoxication are pupillary constriction, euphoria, slowness in movement, drowsiness, and slurred speech. The effects of overdose are slow and shallow bre...

Now in this post we would try to learn about the drug abuse substances examples and their dependence. 1. Alcohol:- The dependence of alcohol is commonly dealt with the use and abuse of other psychoactive drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines. Slurred speech incoordination, unsteady gait, nystagmus which include rapid, rhythmic movement of the eyeball, impairment in attention or memory, stupor or coma these all include in the dependence of signs of alcohol. This is also associated with the depression, but usually the depression appears to be a consequence, not a cause, of the drinking. 2. Amphetamines:- This is a psychostimulant drug that is known to produce wakefulness and focus in dealing with decreased fatigue and appetite. These central nervous system stimulants are taken orally or intravenously. Some of the examples of this amphetamines are: 1. Amphetamine (Benezedrine) 2. Dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine) and 3. Methamphetamine (Desoxyn or speed) Appeti...

Now in this post we would learn about somatoform disorders and others. Somatoform disorders:- These are a group of disorders in which it is a mental disorder characterized by physical symptoms for which no particular cause or injury can occur. The physical symptoms such as abdominal or chest pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, palpitations, deafness, blindness, and paralysis are not oftenly explained by a physical or other mental disorders or by injury and are not side effects of medication, drugs, or alcohol. People who suffer this disorder may go various medical evaluations and tests to be confident that they do not have an illness related to a physical cause or central lesion. Whenever the patients suffer from this disorder they become worried so that the doctors are also unable to find a reason for their health problems. The symptoms are lasted for several years like the other illnesses. Examples of  Somatoform disorders are 1. Conversion disorder and  2.Hypochondria...