Special Issue Article
Pages: 11 - 11Nishtha Budhiraja
The case is of a 22 year old male with gaming addiction. History revealed that his addiction developed when Gaming became his escape from reality after he lost one of his closest friends. In a span for 3 months his gaming escalated and with occasional bouts of small scale sports gambling as well. After rapport building, FRAMES was used as a brief intervention method. Psychoeducation was started and articles on gaming addiction were given to read in the sessions and after. Mindfulness and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy were used along with supportive therapy and family therapy to help him recover from his addiction as well as prevent future relapses. His gaming behaviour has reduced from 6-8 hours in a day to 30 minutes before going to bed 2-3 times in a week in a span of 1.5 months with weekly therapy sessions.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 20 - 20Huang Wei Ling
Introduction: Bell’s palsy (BP) is a loss of facial movement due to nerve damage. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the physiopathology of BP is external Wind-Cold attacking the channels of the face. Purpose: To demonstrate which are the energy alterations on the chakras energy centers on patients with Bell’s palsy and the results of the treatment using TCM tools. Methods: Three case reports of patients with Bell’s palsy. All with history of developing Bell’s palsy after exposure to Cold and Wind. They received measurement of the chakras, and in all the cases, they had no energy in all seven chakras. The treatment was recommendation to avoid exposure to Cold and Wind, Chinese dietary counselling, acupuncture, and treatment for the chakras with homeopathy medication according to the theory of the author entitled Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements based on Traditional Chinese Medicine and crystal-based medications. Results: All patients presented improvement of the Bell’s palsy, restoring nerve function, besides improving the ability of the patients to close their eyes and improvement of the well-being, self-esteem and emotional state. Conclusion: In this study, it was concluded that patients with Bell’s palsy have an energy deficiency on the chakras centers that make them more prone to invasion of Wind and Cold, due to weakened energy, leading, in this case, to the formation of Bell’s palsy. In this study, TCM tools were used for restoring the function of the facial nerves and muscles and rebalancing all the energy of the patients (Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood and chakras energy). The use of high-concentrated medication, such as corticosteroids, normally used in Western medicine treatment, may harm the vital energy of the patients even more, worsening or maintaining the condition of energy imbalance, and therefore, Bell’s palsy.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 19 - 19Huang Wei Ling
Essential tremor (ET) is a nervous system disorder causing involuntary and rhythmic shaking. In traditional Chinese medicine, tremors could be caused by energy deficiencies leading to internal Heat and Wind formation responsible for the tremors. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that patients with ET have an energy and chakras energy deficiency and the correction of these imbalances and replenishment of these chakras energy deficiency is important to treat this kind of patients. The methodology used was based on five clinical cases reports, two adolescents, one young adult and two older people. All of them complaining of a mild tremor in the hands. In the adolescents the main cause was the excessive of use computer and cellphone; in the young adults was due to excessive use of psychotropic medications; in the older patient, the tremor appeared after implantation of dental implant. All of them did the chakras energy measurement through radiesthesia procedure and all the energy in these chakras was completely depleted in energy. The treatment was done rebalancing the internal energy through Chinese dietary nutrition, auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting and replenishment of the chakras energy deficiency through highly diluted medications. Findings: All patients improved a lot the ET with the treatment done. Conclusion: Through these cases reports it is possible to observe the effectiveness and importance of considering energy imbalances during diagnosis and treatment of ET. Therefore, in order to treat correctly the tremor on the hands, we must treat the patient as a whole, observing his emotions, diet, type of medication that the patient is using, the use of electromagnetic devices and the use of metal implants in the body that could be the factors leading to energy deficiencies.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 18 - 18Stefanie Mundnich
Radiotherapy plays a key role in the treatment of head and neck cancer, as a definitive treatment or in combination with chemotherapy and/or surgery. However it is related to an increased risk of cerebrovascular disease. It is thought that radiotherapy produces a radiation-induced vasculopathy with endothelial dysfunction, injury and occlusion of the vasa vaosrum, and accelerated atherosclerosis. This is represented by an increase in carotid intima media thickness seen in the first 7 years after radiotherapy, with a six fold increase in the incidence of ischemic stroke. There are some few instruments used to predict cerebrovascular disease, all having in common as negative risk factors: advanced-age, hypertension and high cholesterol on statin treatment. Regular follow up and appropriate screening for cerebrovascular disease are recuired for this population to prevent an ischemic stroke.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 17 - 17Omar Mansour Alhazmi
Migraine is the most popular neurological condition which affects virtually everybody during their lifetime minimally once. Globally, migraine has a high prevalence among medical college students. This research aimed to determine whether there is an association between learning from electronic devices and migraine prevalence between medical students at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This cross-sectional study was carried out on 398 students (both sexes) in different academic years at the faculty of medicine, KAU, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The data were collected using a closed-ended questionnaire. The results revealed that more than half of the participants (52.5%) suffered from migraine in earlier periods of their lives. The key indicators of migraine were female (60.8%), school days (90.9%), positive family history (76.6%), adolescence (54.1%), an electronic source in studying (52.2%), and screen exposure for more than 4 hours daily (61.3%). Furthermore, there was a significant association between migraine and gender, family history, electronic source of study, duration of screen exposure, and adolescence. The findings of this research revealed that students of the medical school who suffer from migraine could be attributed to the usage of digital study methods such as a laptop, a computer, or a tablet in studying with screens exposure for long periods.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 16 - 16Michael Fossel
Both animal research and human clinical trials on age-related CNS diseases have suffered from the lack of a unified systems model. One result has been the failure of animal studies to translate into successful human trials, as well as the uniform failure of clinical trials aimed at targets such as amyloid, tau, etc. A unified model of age-related CNS dysfunction needs to offer a framework for not only age-related human CNS diseases – including Alzheimer’s and other age-related human dementias -- but for age-related CNS dysfunction in animals as well. The model detailed here, focusing on cell senescence and the concomitant changes in gene expression, encompasses both human and animal disease and suggests a novel point of clinical intervention.
Summary: A unified systems model of age-related dementias is consistent with all clinical data, explains and accurately predicts the outcomes of human trials (more than 1,100 of which have failed), and offers a novel and feasible point of intervention that promises an effective cure for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 15 - 15Mai Omer Mohammed Elamin
The objectives of this abstract to highlight that Neurosarcoidosis is uncommon type of sarcoidosis, also it’s very severe and fatal sometimes.We have a case of a young 27 years old healthy Nigerian origin man presented with acute confusion and agitation to our acute medical unit. His medical history didn’t show any trauma, fever or weakness, he lives in UK with no contact with TB patient All his investigations were normal FBC, Urea &electrolytes, CRP, LFTS including CSF examination, virology for HIV and Cryptococcal antigen were negative, and toxicology: drug screen also was negative. In addition, he had an EEG which was revealed Bi frontal dysfunction with no ictal patterns. His imaging, the MRI /MRA brain showed thin nodular leptomeningeal inflammatory disease and isolated left pontine microhemorrhage consistent with Neurosarcoidosis and no features of infarction or vasculitis. He was commenced on high dose of steroids while he was in acute medical department and continued for five days. He was improved dramatically on subsequent days and discharged in a good condition.
Our home massage that Neurosarcoidosis is very rare disease that affect 5% of all patient and it will be fatal if not treated. Nonetheless, provided with expert care. The disease is straightforward to treat. Only minority of patients suffer lasting neurological impairments.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 14 - 14Khaled Saleh Abdo Hasan
Juvenile parkinsonism is defined as parkinsonian symptoms and signs presenting prior to 21 years of age. Levodopa-responsive juvenile parkinsonism that is consistent with diagnostic criteria for Parkinson's disease is most often caused by mutations in the PARK-Parkin, PARK-PINK1, or PARK-DJ1 genes. However, many other genetic and acquired parkinsonian disorders presenting in childhood or young adulthood are being reported, often with atypical features, such as presence of other movement disorders, cognitive decline, and psychiatric symptoms. The genetic landscape of juvenile parkinsonism is rapidly changing with the discovery of new genes. The mainstay of treatment remains levodopa. Other symptomatic therapies such as botulinum toxin for focal dystonia, supportive medical therapies, and deep brain stimulation in selected cases, may also be used to provide the most optimal long-term outcomes. Un update on genetics, differential diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of juvenile parkinsonism will be reviewed in this presentation.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 13 - 13Henrik Jordan
Addiction is considered as a brain disorder characterised by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. The main substrates of persistent compulsive drug use are believed to be molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying long-term associative memories in several forebrain circuits fed by dopamine neurons in the midbrain. This presentation will show that this is not a sufficient explanation for addiction in humans. In humans, an actual unsatisfied emotional need is a necessary condition for the development of addiction. This is usually the result of the poor social conditions in childhood and young adulthood of those affected who have not learned to deal with social stressors in a healthy way. It is shown how new findings of the development of neural networks from birth to young adulthood and the affinity of specific drugs to certain brain receptors satisfy emotional needs with a higher risk of addiction in people with immature or inadequate coping strategies. Based on these findings, it will be shown that the choice of a particular drug depends on the individual's personal history and corresponds to the accompanying emotional needs and deficits. This concept helps both in the general understanding of addiction and in understanding and explaining the origin of individual addiction. Iceland has had a complex and successful drug prevention policy for several years, which is consistent with the approach presented here. Further consequences can be drawn from this for the policy of addiction prevention and treatment.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 12 - 12Preeti Modi
Child and Adolescents, todays millennial are the one who are being targeted worldwide for having lot imbalances in their life. Speaking about behavior problems in child, leads to too many external and internal factors which parents are not aware of, and are gone unnoticed, hence that leads to psychological problems, behavior issues and many other mental issues. However, teenagers and adolescents are victims of anxiety, emotional adjustments, depression and many unnoticed psychological and mental wellbeing. Most of the time, it becomes difficult for the one to face their own problems and help themselves, hence to help them many therapies are conducted by the experts and the therapist to aid one to counter the same and make them realize the impact for the long run. Therapies do play a vital role, with the child and adolescents considering their behavioral problem. CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy), ABT (Art Based Therapy) and many more used for the treatment. Any therapy is conducted with the child or adolescents need to initiate on a primary level soon she/he is diagnosed with one.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 1 - 1Michael Fossel
We had a huge success with the merge of 4th International Conference on Addiction Therapy & International Conference on Neurologists Webinar scheduled on November 27, 2020.
The significance of the meeting was achieved due to the accumulation of all the related group of spectators of research scientists to share their knowledge, research work, technologies, and furthermore trade of worldwide Information towards the correct crowd at ideal time. Congress has received a generous response from all over the world.
This has been organized with the aim to the corporate community and to create a platform for the exchange of information on technological developments, new scientific modernization and the effectiveness of various regulatory programs towards Addiction Therapy Meet 2020 and Neurologists Meet 2020.The conference was organized around the theme “Advancing to the future of the addiction-free world & Reshaping the future outbreaks in Neurology and Brain Disorders”. The congress entrenched a firm relation of future strategies in the field of Neuroscience and Psychiatry.
We would like to thank
• Michael Fossel, Presenter; Telocyte LLC, United States
• Huang Wei Ling, Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management Clinic, Brazil
• Dr. Scott H. Silverman, CEO/Founder, Confidential Recovery, United States
• Ms. Charlene R. Lucas, University of the City of Manila, Philippines
• Dr. Henrik Jordan, Psychiatrist in Social Psychiatry Public Health at County of Vorpommern, Germany
We would like to thank each and every participant of Addiction Therapy Meet 2020 and Neurologists Meet 2020 Webinar to make this a huge success. And special thanks to media partners for the promotion of our event.
We are happy to announce 5th International Conference on Addiction Therapy & 2nd International Conference on Neurologists scheduled during August 23-24, 2021 at London, United Kingdom which aim to bring together the prominent researchers academic scientists, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences on all aspects of Neuroscience and Psychiatry.
Major topics discussed to be covered in the webinar are Neurology & Neurosurgery, Drug Addiction, Dual Diagnosis - Mental Illness Co-happening with Substance Abuse, Clinical Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neuropharmacology, Nursing Care in Neurology, Neuro Marketing Strategies, Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Brain Injury and Behavioral Neuroscience, Abuse, Neuro-Toxicology, Addiction Medicine, Addiction Therapy, Alcoholism and Addiction and many more..
Special Issue Article
Pages: 10 - 10Ligia Neves Castanheira
This presentation aims to discuss clinical approach to craving, regarding diagnosis and prognosis and craving as an intervention target. Craving can be evaluated reliably, using relatively easy instruments to implement. Currently, craving is not a consistent predictor of relapse, although the potential prognosis can be improved with researches that identify the conditions under which the craving is more strongly associated with the use of substances. There is considerable support for the inclusion of craving as a clinical result in the research of the treatment of substance use disorders. Craving as a target for intervention studies initials show that it can function as a mediator of the treatment outcome, and there is support for more intensive investigations of the true impact of treatments aimed at craving.
In conclusion, “desire” has a considerable clinical significance in several domains as research progresses, it is expected that the potential clinical craving continues to expand.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 9 - 9Aakriti Paul
Scientific breakthroughs have revolutionized the understanding of substance use disorders. For example, severe substance use disorders, commonly called addictions, were once viewed largely as a moral failing or character flaw, but are now understood to be chronic illnesses characterized by clinically significant impairments in health, social function, and voluntary control over substance use. Although the mechanisms may differ, addiction has many features in common with disorders such as diabetes, asthma, and hypertension. All of these disorders are chronic, subject to relapse, and influenced by genetic predisposition, developmental, behavioral, social, and environmental factors. In all of these disorders, affected individuals may have difficulty in complying with the prescribed treatment .This evolving and empathetic understanding of substance use disorders as medical conditions has had important implications for prevention and treatment. Research demonstrating that addiction is driven by changes in the brain has helped to reduce the negative attitudes associated with substance use disorders and provided support for integrating treatment for substance use disorders into mainstream health care. Neurobiology studies in animals have historically focused on what happens in the brain right after taking an addictive substance (this is called the acute impact), but research has shifted to the study of how ongoing, long-term (or chronic) substance use changes the brain. One of the main goals of research in this field is to understand at the most basic level the mechanisms through which substance use alters brain structure and function and drives the transition from occasional use to misuse, addiction, and relapse.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 8 - 8Leigh Joy Mansel-Pleydell
The self-care tripod model I have devised is based on 25 years of studies of medical articles, psychological textbooks, spiritual texts and philosophical books aswell as the 12 step program. It is called the tripod model as it has 3 distinct aspects to it, namely 1. Self-care (physical, mental, emotional) 2. Tribe care (relates to how we teach others how to treat us, boundary setting, assertive communication setting and finally choosing our tribe) 3. Sacred care (relates to where do we draw our inspiration from, how do we surrender our will, how do we lean into the universe of creativity and bliss). The main focus of the tripod model is to encourage my client to create an authentic and deeply compassionate connection to themselves, others and the sacred. Addicts or partners of addicts have used substances or people to numb the pain of trauma, rejection, grief and abandonment. My role as a coach and counsellor is to help them to gently connect to those feelings, feel them without wanting to numb them and allow the feelings to move up and out of their bodies. I encourage my clients develop deep compassion for themselves which they are later able to give as a gift to others. The self-care tripod model helps them to do this.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 7 - 7Sam Vaknin
Repeated abuse has long lasting pernicious and traumatic effects such as panic attacks, hyper vigilance, sleep disturbances, flashbacks (intrusive memories), suicidal ideation, and psychosomatic symptoms. The victims experience shame, depression, anxiety, embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, abandonment, and an enhanced sense of vulnerability.
The first phase of PTSD involves incapacitating and overwhelming fear. The victim feels like she has been thrust into a nightmare or a horror movie. She is rendered helpless by her own terror. She keeps re-living the experience through recurrent and intrusive visual and auditory hallucinations ("flashbacks") or dreams. In some flashbacks, the victim completely lapses into a dissociative state and physically re-enacts the event while being thoroughly oblivious to her whereabouts. The victim's family and friends complain that she is no longer capable of showing intimacy, tenderness, compassion, empathy, and of having sex (due to her post-traumatic "frigidity"). Many victims become paranoid, impulsive, reckless, and self-destructive. Others somatise their mental problems and complain of numerous physical ailments. They all feel guilty, shameful, humiliated, desperate, hopeless, and hostile.
PTSD need not appear immediately after the harrowing experience. It can – and often is – delayed by days or even months. It lasts more than one month (usually much longer). Sufferers of PTSD report subjective distress (the manifestations of PTSD are ego-dystonic).
Special Issue Article
Pages: 6 - 6Leonida Zalokar
Identifying children with the most severe emotional and behavioral disorders is extremely challenging. Emotional and behavioral disorders can find expression to different degrees; they can be variously manifested and located on a continuum from minor behavioral problems to the most severe forms of behavioral disorders. At the end of the continuum we find the percentage of the most dangerous and therapeutically unresponsive children - children with callous-unemotional traits.
We are very good at describing violent, dangerous behavior, but we are stuck with providing the right assistance programs – what works? Many mental health conditions in adulthood show their first signs already in childhood and, if left untreated, these can develop into conditions which need a regular care.
In the period from 2005 to 2010 the situation in Slovenia was so severe that the Social work centers and the court called upon the responsible institutions for action – residential treatment institutions did not accept violent children and adolescents; they were excluded from institutions during their stay, rejected by pediatric psychiatric hospitals, and were hospitalized in adult psychiatric wards. the whole system was afraid of them. In 2010, the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs commissioned a survey on the situation in Slovenia which showed alarming numbers of untreated children, rejected across the entire system. In my speech, the pedagogical medical treatment model will be presented in more detail, together with the goals and the evaluation report.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 5 - 5Charlene R. Lucas
People suffering from trauma have symptoms instead of memories and can persist up to thirty years or more. Women are also twice likely to develop trauma disorders than men. Trauma can cause many psychological reactions like anxiety, depression, somatic reactions, and worse posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to Dr. David Grand, trauma is not only in the brain but it is also registered in the body, it is the reason why the symptoms, triggers, and intrusive thoughts won’t go away even as time goes by.
We can choose how to live our lives, and we can be whoever we wanted to be. There is no shame in seeking mental help, and you are no less than a person when you ask for help. Everyone does get hurt, and everyone has issues needed to be addressed. The impact of trauma can be daunting and even debilitating. It can break relationships, damage a person, and even end up committing suicide. If we are all aware of what is happening to us from the inside; the hurt that we inflict in others, the pain that wasn’t addressed, and the constant negativities in our minds, if we properly address these, we can stop the cycle of pain. We can have better future, better lives, and better generation.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 4 - 4Huang Wei Ling
Marijuana remains the most widely used illicit substance in the United States and Europe. Marijuana, according to Chinese herbal medicine is what is known as a "cold" herb, draining the essential energy called Yang primarily from the Liver, rendering the Liver relatively unable to perform its functions of moving physical and mental energy and containing it for when it is needed. Purpose: to demonstrate that chakras energies replenishment is an important tool to treat patients with marijuana addiction. Methods: one case report of a 26-year-old male patient. Chakras energies measurement were done throught radiesthesia procedure that demonstrate that all his chakras were completely depleted in energy, all rate in one out eight. The treatment consisted in Chinese dietary counseling, auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting and replenishment of the chakras with highly diluted medications according to the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. Results: the patient improved very quickly from his depression symptoms and it was possible to suspend the use of marijuana in the first two weeks of treatment. Conclusion: to treat patients with addiction in marijuana it is important to balance the internal energies and replenish the chakras energies deficiency, improving self-steam, depression, anxiety, fear, sleep, sexual function, etc, giving the energy condition to live normally
Special Issue Article
Pages: 3 - 3Lorena Kostic
Dup15q syndrome, as well as ESES (Electrical status epilepticus during sleep) is a rare syndrome. Clinical symptomatology of these syndromes includes medical resistency to epilepsy. Therefore, the goal of this research is to examine medical treatment of ESES in a girl with Dup 15q with ESES and her wellbeing. Unfortunately in Croatia we still do not have register for rare diseases, so there is one known case with these two disorders together. Research will be conducted as qualitative, using semi-structured interview with mother of 15 year old girl. The results are expected to indicate difficulties in treating this syndrome and how it affects a person’s wellbeing.
Special Issue Article
Pages: 2 - 2Tina Huseth
Substance use among today’s youth is on the rise due to an inability to articulate their emotions. Rather than parents seeking to understand and teach their child to articulate and express their “anger” appropriately, parents teach their children to take a pill it makes things better. This sets the stage for future substance use to cope. There is proven research there are Mental Health disorders that are underlying issues for a child to have difficulty expressing themselves in which medication is needed. However, without proper behavior modification a child’s frustration can easily be categorized as “anger”. Although this research is in the very early stages, I hope to prove through therapy adolescents who use drugs become sober and cope with their emotions in a healthy manner. The IV will be observed through both individual counseling as well as group counseling and are between the ages of 11-18. The participants will be observed over a course of several years to determine if early intervention with emotion regulation proves to be valid.
In conclusion this research will help gain an understanding as to better help parents understand and help their children while lowering the lowering the amount of drug use, bulling and developing socially and emotionally members of society.
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