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Let us learn some of the Combining forms, Suffixes, and Prefixes and their Terminology. 1. anxi/o means uneasy or anxious, or distressed - anxiolytic means pertaining to leave anxiety. This type of drug relieves anxiety. 2. aut/o means self or own - autism means regressives into one self. 3. hallucin/o means hallucination or to wander in - hallucinogen is a substance producing hallucination which means sensory perception in the absence of any external stimuli, and an illusion is an error in perception in which sensory stimuli are present but incorrectly interpreted. 4. hypn/o means sleep - hypnosis means to sleep by touching them with his magic wand or by fanning them with his dark wings. Next lesson continues the psychiatric termi 5. iatr/o means treatment - psychiatrist is a person who treats mind. 6. ment/o means mind - mental which pertains to mind. 7. neur/o means nerve - neurosis which is a term used to describe mental disorders in which symptoms are distressin...

Now coming to the vocabulary of therapies used in psychiatry. 1. Amphetamines:- To treat depression the central nervous system stimulants may be used. 2. Behavior therapy:- To relieve anxiety and improve symptoms of illness that is changing or conditioning behavior patterns by training and repetition. 3. Electroconvulsive therapy:- In the treatment of depression the electric current is used to produce convulsions. 4. Family therapy:- To resolve and understand conflicts the treatment of an entire family can be done. 5. Free association:- The patient verbalizes without censorship the passing contents of his or her mind is a psychoanalytic technique. 6. Group therapy:- The similar problems gain insight into their personalities through discussion and interaction together of group of patients. 7. Hypnosis:- To increase the pace of psychotherapy trance is used or the state of altered consciousness is held. 8. Lithium:- The manic stage of manic-depressive illness of a substance is u...

Psychiatric symptoms and disorders terminologies. Paraphilia:- The involvement of unusual objects activities, or situations with recurrent intense sexual urge, behavior, or fantasy. Personality disorders:- The inflexibility and impairment of social functioning were marked by lifelong personality patterns. Phobia:- The disabling or irrational fear of an object or situation. Post-traumatic stress disorder:- For a traumatic event the symptoms of anxiety-related appears to personal experience. Psychosis:- To recognize reality, communicate, and relate to others the impairment of mental capacity is used. Reality testing:- The severe impaired in psychoses or the ability to perceive fact from fantasy. Repression:- The unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses are pushed into the unconscious by the defense mechanism. Sexual disorders:- Disorders of paraphilias and sexual dysfunctions. Schizophrenia:- The withdrawal of disorganized thinking and conflict from reality into ...

Cancer is a fatal disease of growth enlargement of malignant cells inside the body.  Because cancer is a state, in which cells of the body start to breed its offsprings disorderly.  In ancient times, cancers felt as distended blood vessels due to the tumor or mass inside the body.  The growth of these cells symbolize to the claws of a crab in its appearance.   The cancer cells nurture quickly and so spread gradually to other cells adjacent to those cells.  Therefore, these cells enter by force to the other cells nearby and enter from one organ to other organs gradually.  This process of spreading is known as metastasis or spread of the cancer.  Over the centuries the understanding of this fatal disease condition erstwhile steadily grown in the medical field.  Occurrence of cancer is ever increasing in on the whole parts of the world day by day.  Millions of people die with cancer all over the world year by year.  The pe...

Now in this post we will revise some vocabulary of psychiatric symptoms and disorders. PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND DISORDERS:- 1. Affect:- External emotion or emotional response. 2. Amnesia:- Memory loss. 3. Anorexia nervosa:- An eating disorder of excessive dieting to maintain an original body weight by refusion. 4. Anxiety disorders:- Unpleasant tension, distress, and avoidance behavior are the characters of this disorders. Examples of this disorders are obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. 5. Apathy:- The absence of emotional involvement or emotions lack of interest absent. 6. Autism:- Withdrawal, more lack of response to other people, inability to interact, and development of retarded language. 7. Bipolar disorder:- Mania and depression with intermixed periods. 8. Bulimia nervosa;- Binge eating followed by vomiting and depression is an eating disorder. 9. Compulsion:- An action which is repeatedly uncontrollably urged to perform. 10. Conversio...

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...