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When we suffer a depression, it can be treated with medication, psychotherapy or a combination of both. Normal, especially when we go to the doctor for the first time, we prescribe a treatment with antidepressant drugs can improve our mood and, thus, make more effective therapy to help overcome it.

If you advise us to submit to treatment with antidepressants, although we are reluctant to take medications, we must not forget that the sooner we start the treatment under the chances that the disease is chronic. The main function of these medications is to improve our mood for that way we can confront and overcome the disease.

The main types of antidepressants are:

- Tricyclic Antidepressants: Read the rest of this entry »

How to Communicate With an Alzheimer’s Patient?

As you know, as the disease progresses, the vocabulary of the sick person is reduced gradually, reaching a time will not be able to name the objects that surround him and even to express their feelings or desires or call our behalf, and to understand what we say. Communicating with person who have neuro problem can be frustrating, but we should never think that reducing our dialogue, questions and phrases are going to help, but quite the opposite. We must always look for strategies that allow us to continue communicating with him, even in the final stage of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

Is to provide the patient with information and advice:

a) Information including, for example, what is the most likely cause of your back pain, what treatment strategy is shown on the case and what is forecast. The “short educational programs” include information that can be given in a query, the delivery of an educational brochure, or the use of Internet and discussion groups among patients.

b) Councils, including, for example, what should be the activity level and duration of pain later. We indicate below the recommended advice.
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As has been demonstrated that back pain is not always due to an organic disorder of the spine, have begun to study the factors associated with an increased risk of autism. We must be cautious in interpreting these studies show that back pain sufferers have some characteristics more often than non-sufferers. That means that these factors are associated with an increased risk, not necessarily to be the only cause of pain or that their removal improve it.

Despite this limitation, in those cases where you have to take into account factors rigorous epidemiological studies show that are associated with an increased risk of back pain, especially in cases in which the mechanism can be glimpsed explain their potential influence. Some of the factors that have been most studied are: Read the rest of this entry »

Formerly it was believed that the pain appeared because there was some alteration of the structure of the spine, including scoliosis or herniated disc. That is a mistake.

Pain is a neurological mechanism involving activation of the nerves that transmit pain and the onset of muscle contraction and inflammation. Sometimes, it can also lead to nerve root compression.

This mechanism can be triggered by an alteration of the structure of the spine, including disc herniation or significant degeneration of the facet joint, but in most cases can not be reached to determine the initial cause that triggers it, and pain attributed to contracture or muscle strain.

Back pain occurs by a neurological mechanism, usually of unknown origin, which causes pain, swelling and muscle spasm. The main methods of diagnosis are the history and physical examination, and only rarely are useful tests such as x-ray or blood test, MRI and neuropsychological tests.

There are scientifically evaluated scales to objectively assess pain intensity and degree of disability that causes back pain. Read the rest of this entry »

Treatment of the SLK is difficult, particularly with respect to language disorder. Both anti-epileptic therapy and speech therapy and rehabilitation, are needed. The early antiepileptic treatment is, indeed, essential if the aphasia is a direct consequence of epileptic activity. Given that crises are not always present, it is imperative to carry out an EEG every child with acquired disorders of language devoid of an obvious explanation.

Photo cerebral language rehabilitation treatment is always indicated as an adjunct to antiepileptic therapy or as the only method when epilepsy is inactive. Most of the remaining methods use the skills related to reading and writing to promote communication. In severe cases, would require the teaching of a language based on signals. Read the rest of this entry »

Psychological problems are fairly common during the illness: often the type of depression, anxiety, irritability or sometimes ideas of persecution. The intellectual impairment is rare, and it should suggest other diagnoses (see other parkinsonian syndromes). Visual hallucinations occur occasionally, but almost always after many years of evolution or in some treatments, if again we must mention other diagnoses. Read the rest of this entry »

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease, rare before age 45, affecting 1.5% of the population over 65 years, reaching as many men as women. The fundamental lesion is the degeneration of a certain type of neurons: dopaminergic neurons.
These neurons produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter substance of the nervous system. It occurs particularly in terms of neurons responsible for controlling body movements. There in Parkinson’s disease dopamine deficiency in the brain and this is manifested by movement disorders. Read the rest of this entry »

The specialty of cardiology has been the most in demand for graduates in medicine after examining MIR, 2008
The specialty of cardiology has been the most in demand for medical graduates having passed last January, the screening of Internal residents (SIR), as 20 of the 100 students with better grade, one in five chose that specialty to fulfill their period of residence.

During the past two weeks, the students that the January 19 test performed selectively attended to the Ministry of Health in accordance with their qualifications to apply for the 6517 specialist health training places this year offered to build the residence system. Read the rest of this entry »