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Naloxone is approved for use in neonates to reverse respiratory depression induced by maternal opioid use. In addition, naloxone has been used to improve circulation in patients in shock, an effect related to blockade of endogenous opioids. Other experimental and less well documented uses for naloxone include reversal of coma in alcohol overdose, appetite suppression, and alleviation of dementia from schizophrenia. Side effects of naloxone are minor. 

Antipsychotic medications are indicated in the treatment of acute and chronic psychotic disorders. These include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and manic states occurring as part of a bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder. The co-adminstration of antipsychotic medication with antidepressants has also been shown to increase the remission rate of severe depressive episodes that are accompanied by psychotic symptoms. Antipsychotic medications are frequently used in the management of agitation associated with delirium, dementia, and toxic effects of both prescribed medications (e.g. L-dopa used in Parkinson s disease) and illicit dtugs (e.g. cocaine, amphetamines, andPCP). They are also indicated in the management of tics that result from Gilles de la Tourette s syndrome, and widely used to control the motor and behavioural manifestations of Huntington s disease. 

The anxiety disorders are common and surprisingly disabling conditions. Studies on the health economics of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder document the cost to the individual and to society. Attention has focused on the major psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia and the dementias. Studies suggest that many anxiety disorders are of early onset and too often chronic they are quite common and impose a heavy burden on society. More studies will be needed to discern the fine grain in the survey material and to identify more precisely the location and type of societal costs. These factors will vary from country to country, from district to district, between men and women and between various age groups. 

Psychotic symptoms in late life (greater than 65 years of age) are generally a result of an ongoing chronic illness carried over from younger life however, a small percentage of patients develop psychotic symptoms de novo, defined as late-life schizophrenia. The 6-month prevalence rate of schizophrenia in the elderly is around 1%. However, other illnesses presenting with psychotic symptoms are common in this population, as approximately one-third of patients with Alzheimer s disease, Parkinson s disease, and vascular dementia experience psychotic symptoms. The majority of data for antipsychotic use in the elderly comes from experience treating these other disease states. 

Patients tend to believe that medications from nature are non-toxic, non-addicted, and non-invasive. Therefore complementary medicines are usually used in common, less severe, and chronic mental disorders such as sleep disorders, neurasthenia, and anxiety disorders. It is also applied in incurable conditions, for example dementias, autism, and schizophrenia, when doctors and families have tried desperately all means and finally turned to complementary medicine as the last hope. 

The differential diagnosis of depression is organized along both symptomatic and causative lines. Symptomatically, major depression is differentiated from other disorders by its clinical presentation or its long-term history. This is, of course, the primary means of distinguishing psychiatric disorders in DSM-1V. The symptomatic differential of major depression includes other mood disorders such as dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder, other disorders that frequently manifest depressed mood including schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, dementia, adjustment disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and, finally, other nonpsychiatric conditions that resemble depression such as bereavement and medical illnesses like cancer or AIDS. 

The term schizophrenia was introduced by the Swiss physician Eugen Bleuter to replace the earlier term dementia praecox. It derives from the two Greek words schism, a split , and phren, the mind , to indicate the apparent splitting of the mind. One part remains in touch with reality whereas the other part is out of touch. It is, however, characterised by its symptoms rather than by biological markers. The current hypothesis to account for the most... 

Although aggressive symptoms are common in schizophrenia, they are far from unique to this condition. Thus, these same symptoms are frequently associated with bipolar disorder, childhood psychosis, borderline personality disorder, drug abuse, Alzheimer and other dementias, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorders in children, and many others (Fig. 10—5). 

In conclusion, from the findings of various basic researches, histamine H3 antagonists may be useful for the therapies of Altzheimer s disease, narcolepsy, schizophrenia, and depression in addition to dementia and epilepsy. 

Third, patients diagnosed with schizophrenia do not suffer from the typical signs of the earlier stages of a dementing disorder such as shortterm memory dysfunction. They are usually easy to distinguish, for example, from victims of Alzheimer s disease, multi-infarct dementia, and the dementias associated with Parkinson s disease, Huntington s chorea, or multiple sclerosis. 

The terni schizophrenia is used to denote a number of heterogeneous, but related, disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from the environment and preoccupation with interior processes, attended by a resultant disintegration of the personality. An early term for schizophrenia was Dementia Praecox, meaning an intense pathological state begirming early in... 

Since the 1950s, the psychiatric community has had the benefit of antimanic and antidepressant medications to treat manic-depressive illnesses. These medications were developed using the work of Emil Kraepelin, a German physician who wrote about mental illness in the late nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century. Kraepelin had carefully noted distinguishing symptoms among mental patients and had followed the course of the various illnesses in many of them. He was the first to distinguish what he called dementia praecox, now called schizophrenia, and was able to differentiate this illness from manic depression. 

Traditionally, as mentioned above, schizophrenia was seen as being like dementia praecox—as having a chronic, progressive course. More recent research has called this into question, and suggests that a significant percentage of people with schizophrenia will eventually have a substantial recovery. Manfred Bleuler (1968) reviewed pooled data from many studies and found that almost half of schizophrenic patients substantially improved or recovered. It has been suggested that the view that schizophrenia has a poor outcome is based on experience in public mental health clinics, which serve the 40 to 50 percent of people with schizophrenia who do poorly. 

Barriers to compliance must be identified during the history. Emotions, cognitive function, and physical ability can affect patient adherence to therapy. If a patient suffers from depression (emotional barrier), schizophrenia or dementia (cognitive barrier), or severe arthritis of the hands (physical barrier), compliance can diminish. Special attention should be given to these three areas, and barriers should be indicated on the history record. This process directs the implementation of specific aids to improve compliance. 

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