Effects of short-term snuff

Effects of short-term snuff

The Colombian Heart Foundation speaks of ten effects on the body of a smoker:

1. Infections in the nose, throat and larynx (upper airway). Infections in the lower respiratory tract such as pneumonia and bronchitis.

2. Increased heart rate and blood pressure.

3. Reduced physical condition.

4. The teeth begin to change color to a yellowish hue.

5. Risk of dental caries by increased plaque.

6. fingers and nails turn yellow.

7. Appearance of wrinkles in the face by the decrease in skin hydration.

8. Decrease of smell and taste.

9. Bad breath.

10. Bad body odor, including hair.

Antisocial personality disorder

Antisocial personality disorder

The person suffering from this disorder is characterized by its tendency to interact in society, avoiding any interaction.

The various symptoms and behaviors that characterize the ASPD include: theft, aggression, tendency to loneliness, violence, lies ... In addition, people affected by ASPD tend to be shy, depressed and have social anxiety. This last point is due to their fear of being rejected. However, psychological therapy is very effective in handling the problems of antisocial disorder.

Antidepressants

Antidepressants

Antidepressants are medicines prescribed by a doctor to treat depression. These drugs help improve the way the brain uses certain natural chemicals. It may take several weeks to take effect. There are many types of antidepressants. Sometimes, you need to try more than one to find the one that takes a better effect.

These drugs can cause some minor side effects generally do not last long. For example: headache, nausea, sleep problems, anxiety and sexual problems. Tell your doctor if you have any side effects. You should also tell your doctor if you take other medicines, vitamins or herbal supplements.

It is important to continue taking the medicine, even if you feel better and do not stop taking them without talking to your doctor. Generally, antidepressants should be withdrawn gradually.

 

Neuron

Neuron

The neuron is the fundamental and basic unit of the nervous system. It is an elongated cell, specializing in conducting nerve impulses.

    In neurons they can distinguish three main parts, namely:

Soma or cell body: is the most voluminous part of the neuron. Here you can see a spherical structure called the nucleus. It contains the information that directs the activity of the neuron. Furthermore, in the soma it is the cytoplasm. Therein other structures that are important to the operation of the neuron are located.

Dendrites: short extensions are originating neural soma. Its function is to receive impulses from other neurons and send them to the soma of the neuron.

Axon: is a single long extension. Sometimes, it can measure up to one meter in length. Its function is to take the momentum from the neuronal soma and drive to another part of the system.

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis

It is an autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).

Causes

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects women more than men. The disorder is most commonly diagnosed between 20 and 40 years of age, but can be seen at any age. MS is caused by damage to the myelin sheath. This sheath is the protective covering that surrounds nerve cells. When this nerve covering is damaged, nerve impulses are slowed or stopped.

Nerve damage is caused by inflammation. Inflammation occurs when the body's own immune cells attack the nervous system. This can occur along any area of ​​the brain, optic nerve or spinal cord. It is not known exactly what causes MS. The most common belief is that the culprits are a virus, a genetic defect, or both. Environmental factors may also play a role. You are slightly more likely to develop the disease if you have a family history of MS or if you live in a part of the world where the disease is more common.

 

Arrhythmias

Arrhythmias

It is a disorder of the heart rate (pulse) or heart rate. The heart may beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia) or irregularly.

Arrhythmias are caused by problems with the electrical conduction system of the heart.

1.      There may be abnormal signals (extra).
2.      The electrical signals can be blocked or delayed.
3.      Electrical signals travel in new or different routes through the heart.

Alzheimer

Alzheimer

Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. Alzheimer's is a form of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior.

Causes

The exact cause of Alzheimer's is unknown (AD, for its acronym in English). Research shows that certain changes in the brain lead to this disease.

You are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease if:

•      Is older. The development of this disease is not part of normal aging.
•      Having a close blood relative, like a brother, sister or parent with the disease.
•      Some have linked to Alzheimer's genes.

Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the science devoted to the study and treatment of mentally illness. Its aim is to Prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate disorders of the mind.Only in the nineteenth century Mental disorders Began to be as scientifically Treated diseases. Until then, people suffering from illnesses mentally locked up in asylums Were and received different treatments Intended to restore to reason.

Thanks to literature and film, are many atrosidades Known Which They Were subjected to people suffering from disorders Mental Decades and centuries ago That Questioned the supposed benefits of treatments. On the other hand, it is Worrying to think That many psychiatric Patients today are victims of abuse, and That so many people wander through the streets of the cities talking to herself, without assistance of any kind from the Authorities or something Perhaps saddest of other Beings of Their species, They look away.

 

                                 

TDAH

Attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity

ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity. It is a neurobiological disorder originating in childhood character that involves a pattern of inattention, hyperactivity and / or impulsivity, and that often is associated with other comorbid disorders.

Sleep Paralysis

Sleep Paralysis

Sleep paralysis is the inability to move or speak Immediately after waking up. This can be an exceptionally scary time for Those Afflicted With This weird phenomenon, but DESPITE former beliefs, the feeling of paralysis is not Caused by supernatural Beings.

Parasomnias

Parasomnias

Parasomnias are a group of sleep disorders that involve unwanted events or experiences that occur while you are falling asleep, sleeping or waking up. Parasomnias may include abnormal movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions or dreams. Although the behaviors may be complex and appear purposeful to others, you remain asleep during the event and often have no memory that it occurred. If you have a parasomnia, you may find it hard to sleep through the night

 

 

PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

It is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after one has experienced emotional trauma involving a threat of injury or death.

Health care providers do not know why traumatic events can cause PTSD in some people but not others. Genes, emotions and family environment may also play a role. Emotional traumas of the past may increase the risk of this disorder after a recent traumatic event.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the change in the body's response to stressful circumstances. Normally, after the event the body recovers. Hormones and stress chemicals that the body releases stress due to such return to normal levels. For some reason, a person with PTSD, the body continues to secrete hormones and stress chemicals.

delirium

Delirium

Also it is known as "the rapid onset of brain syndrome," delirium is a psychological condition associated with serious physical problems (eg drug overdose or poisoning). Symptoms include confusion and disorientation, loss of consciousness, agitation, apathy and illusions (lack of perception of external stimuli, such as listening to the noise of the wheels of a hospital gurney and imagine that it is a machine maquiladora coming to tear.)

Delirium should be taken very seriously and must be treated immediately, because it can pose a serious physical problem.

Disorder factitious

Disorder factitious

Individuals suffering from this mental illness create the appearance of a physical illness to be the center of health care and / or various types of drug Get Well. People suffering from this disorder usually vuleven evasive and aggressive when they ask questions or are challenged to clear hacerseles of the inconsistencies of their symptoms. Many escape from the hospital or clinic to go in search of other medical centers. Many individuals with this type of disorder tend to have a behavior similar to those who suffer from somatization personality.

Psychotic disorders

Psychotic disorders

Psychotic disorders are serious mental disorders that cause abnormal ideas and perceptions. People with psychosis lose touch with reality. Two of the main symptoms are delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are false beliefs, such as the idea that someone is against or television sends secret messages. Hallucinations are false perceptions, such as hearing, seeing or feeling something that does not exist.

Depression

Depression

Sadness and melancholy are two feelings present at some point in the life of all people, like joy and pleasure. The first two are not in themselves pathological, but sometimes may become so for certain people. When the mood of an individual at a certain point in their life suffer severe and prolonged sadness or related symptoms affecting their ability to relate to others, work or face the day, feelings of sadness becomes a disease, it is known as depression.

symptom:

• Depressed mood most of the day, as indicated by either subjective account or observation made by others. In children and adolescents, mood can be irritable. 
• markedly diminished interest or capacity for pleasure in all or almost all activities. 
• significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain.
• Insomnia or hypersomnia. 
• Psychomotor agitation or retardation. 
• Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day.
• Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt. 
• Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness. 
• recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.

Manic-Depressive Illness

Manic-Depressive Illness

Who suffers from manic depression experience mood or your state of much more intense than most people experience throughout their lives mood. These mood changes can range from present sadness in depression to euphoria that characterizes the manic phases. Most patients suffering from both phases of illness, depression and mania, although some experience only manic phases or depressive fa-ses.

This disease is also known as a more technical as is "bipolar affective disorder" term. This booklet will describe the two phases of the disease, the problems of each phase, the ways of dealing with the disease and the various treatments available. Although it is a serious disease, with proper treatment, it is possible to carry out a life in which the enfermmedad not intefiera too.

Tachycardia

Tachycardia

Tachycardia is a rapid or irregular heartbeat, usually over 100 beats per minute to 400 beats per minute. With such a high rate, the heart can not effectively pump blood with high levels of oxygen to your body. Tachycardia may occur in the upper chambers of the heart (atrial tachycardia) or lower (ventricular tachycardia).

Emotional dependence

Emotional dependence

Emotional dependency is a psychological state that is manifested in the relationships, family or friends.Have intense fear of loneliness and panic to rupture, which if it occurs leads to the experience of withdrawal: with intense desire to resume the relationship despite how painful this was, obsessive thoughts, and symptoms of anxiety and depression, which are hidden immediately resume if the relationship or start a new replacing the old one.

Emotional dependents have an excessive need for love and to be loved and try to get this affection throughout their different relationships. Show a clear reluctance to lose the source of security and affection that is your partner.

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland

The syndrome of Alice in Wonderland is a neurological disorder that usually occurs in children, usually at night and describes a set of symptoms where visual perception and body image is altered, incorrectly perceiving the size of body parts and external objects, causing disorientation and distortion of the senses.

Normally this syndrome is diagnnosticado in childhood, where the child can feel like the character in the story, a little lost in their dreams; although typically many people no longer feel the symptoms in adolescence, few are felt throughout life, especially at the onset of sleep.