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“One of our first patients, just 17 years old, was brought to us in a wheelchair,” says Professor Christer Lindquist, a pioneer in the use of a brain surgery technique, gamma knife, for people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). “This boy would set himself maths problems, which he had to solve before he could eat.
To fix the brain (Mail and Guardian)
December 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Opiate Treatment
December 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Opiate drugs are narcotic sedatives that depress activity of the central nervous system, reduce pain, and induce sleep. These, like other prescription drugs, could be beneficial to the body. Yet, when taken abusively can lead to addiction.
Living Bipolar
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Everything happened so fast. The thoughts racing through my head at a hundred miles an hour. Suicidal thoughts that would not seem to leave me alone. This was not me. I grew up in a loving family, I’m in a band, I’ve got a fantastic girlfriend. Why am I suddenly down every day and having these suicidal tendancies? I decided to run away from all of it. I packed my bag with a toothbrush, a hairbrush, and a bible and hit the road. I didn’t have a destination. I didn’t even have a care in the world about my friends, or family, or what was going to happen to me. Thoughts were foggy and dark. One minute I was thinking about jumping into a lake and drowning, the next minute I would laugh at myself for having such a thought.
The Necessity for Alcohol Abuse Info
December 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Today people are facing an ever growing populous of undereducated adolescents. Perhaps not undereducated in the sense that don’t go to school. But uneducated in the arena of alcohol abuse information. The information is out there, but there seem to be a lack of alcohol abuse information classes that are correctly structured for the appropriate age groups.
Family Doctor: Medications used to fight chemical imbalance (The Canton Repository)
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Sertraline hydrochloride is the generic name for Zoloft, a drug prescribed for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic, bipolar disorder, severe forms of premenstrual syndrome, social anxiety, post traumatic stress and other psychiatric disorders.