Psychedelics, entactogens and psychoplastogens for depression and related disorders
Currently, the most actively investigated rapidly acting antidepressants, anxiolytics and/or anti PTSD agents, include psychedelics e.g. psilocybin, LSD, N,N‐dimethyltryptamine, ayahuasca; non‐hallucinogenic entactogens, e.g. MDMA; psychoplastogens which rapidly promote neuroplasticity, e.g.
Daniel Hoyer
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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Lorazepam provocation test in purported schizophrenia with lack of treatment response [PDF]
Some patients with severe mental disorders are refractory to psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacological interventions. We present a patient who at the age of 19 developed several schizophrenia - suspect symptoms.
Berg, John E.
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ABSTRACT Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is widely presented as an objective psychiatric diagnosis describing emotional and relational distress. However, feminist, decolonial, neurodiversity and lived experience‐led scholarship demonstrates that BPD emerged within colonial, cisheteronormative, misogynist and neuronormative epistemologies that ...
Laurence Cobbaert +3 more
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Teaching basic relaxation procedures to psychiatric patients receiving electronconvulsive therapy : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
There has been no research on psychiatric patients examining the ability to remember relaxation skills whilst receiving electroconvulsive therapy.
Simons, Bruce Francis
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Background: Clinical practice protocols should consider both the psychological criteria related to a patient’s satisfaction as a consumer of health services and the economic criteria to allocate resources efficiently. An electroconvulsive therapy program
Carmen Selva- Sevilla +2 more
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ABSTRACT Introduction Patient experiences of recovery‐oriented nursing practices in psychiatric inpatient care are understudied. Steps Towards Recovery (STR) is a nursing‐led programme developed to promote personal recovery through empowering each patient's ability to identify resources, find solutions and gain control over one's life.
Caisa Öster +3 more
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Electroconvulsive therapy for agitation in schizophrenia: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials [PDF]
Background: Agitation poses a significant challenge in the treatment of schizophrenia. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a fast, effective and safe treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders, but no meta-analysis of ECT treatment for agitation in ...
Cao, Xiaolan +9 more
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The Study of Education Effect on Knowledge of, and Attitudes Toward Electroconvulsive Therapy Among Iranian Nurses and Patients’ Relatives in a Psychiatric Hospital, 2009-2010 [PDF]
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a cost effective method in the treatment of some psychiatric disorders. Although, service users such as health providers and nurses, also patients and their relatives may refuse ECT when indicated, due to the myths and ...
Adank, Muriel A. +13 more
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Refractory Status Epilepticus Treated With Bilateral Pulvinar Deep Brain Stimulation—A Case Study
ABSTRACT New‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) arises without an identifiable cause or prior epilepsy history, with a 16%–27% mortality rate and significant long‐term neurological sequelae. Neuromodulation such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the anterior and centromedian thalamic nuclei has shown promise when the traditional ...
Mengxuan Tang +16 more
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