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Schizophrenia Powerpoint
- 2. *Schizophrenia symptoms rangefrom mild to severe. There are three main types of symptoms. *Positive Symptoms *Negative Symptoms *Cognitive Symptoms
- 3. * Positive symptomsrefer to a person's normal thinking also known as "psychotic" behaviors. People with these symptoms are sometimes unable to tell what's real from what is imagined. *These symptoms are *Hallucinations *Delusions *Thought disorders *Movement disorders
- 4. *2. Negative symptomsshow emotions or not functioning normal that it may look like depression. *Talk in a weird voice *Not have any facial expressions *Not Having Fun *Have trouble staying on Task *Do not communicate with other people unless they want to
- 5. *Cognitive symptoms makeit hard for someone to take care of themselves or their job due to the symptoms. *symptoms include not making clear and smart decisions, not being able to give information that they barely learned right away, and have trouble paying attention. *A teen developing schizophrenia may start getting bad grades in school, Change friends, Have trouble sleeping, Be irritable or moody.
- 6. *Some causes OfSchizophrenia are the Genes, because the illness can be inherited from someone in the family, or the environment, such as viruses and nutrition problems before birth, and people with different brain structure and brain chemistry. * Scientists have learned a lot about schizophrenia. They are identifying genes and parts of the brain that may play a role in the illness. Some experts think the illness begins before birth but doesn't show up until years later.
- 7. * The most commontreatment for schizophrenia is a family of drugs called Phenothiazine drugs. They are the most effective against the “positive” symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucinations and delusions. They are the most widely used family of drugs for this mental disorder due to their high effectiveness.
- 8. * The downside tousing these chemical drugs is that they do harm your body in the long run. But luckily, there are some more natural supplements you can add to fight against some of the harm the chemicals from the antipsychotics are doing to your body.
- 9. * *Coenzyme Q10- Sincephenothiazine drugs deplete the body of the coenzyme Q10, you take this supplement. *Fish Oil- Has been shown to have helpful interaction against these drugs since it contains the essential fatty acids in the omega-3 family. Fish oil has also shown to be beneficial in the treatment of depression. *Milk Thistle- It protects against the liver toxicity sometimes caused by phenothiazine drugs. *Ginkgo- Reduces the side effects and increases the efficacy of various antipsychotics.
- 10. * *Vitamin E- hasa possible helpful interaction against one of the most feared side effects of phenothiazine called tardive dyskinesia, which are annoying uncontrollable movements, particularly in the face. *Vitamin B6- also helpful against TD, while also reducing symptoms of akathesia, which is a type of restlessness associated with the phenothiazine drugs. *Dehydroepiandrosterone- Reduces the Parkinson-like movement disorders that may occur in these drugs. *Glycine- Schizophrenia can be treated with this natural remedy, but it only helps with the “negative” side effects. But, while taking phenothiazine drugs, glycine has shown to enhance the effects of the drugs, while also fighting against the “negative” symptoms that are not treated very well with antipsychotics alone.
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