Schizophrenia Treatment

Mental disorders mostly are disorders which affects the brain. Therapeutic means, in the treatment of schizophrenia is neuroleptics. They are effective in the following target symptoms in the acute phase of treatment:

* Psychomotor agitation, uncontrollable motor, speech and inner restlessness with a certain clumsiness, purposeless activity, jumping, aggressive and serious devastating events

* Voltage-affective disorder of perception of emotion, expression and control of emotions, feeling unmotivated endangerment

* Sensory fraud psychotic - hearing, vision, smell and tactile hallucinations, the patient may be perceived as external or signals coming from him

* Demented thinking - wrong, subjective beliefs, which in no way can be adjusted independently of reality and the available evidence

* Catatonic disorders, disorders of the will, loss of communication with the patient outside world or conditions of a sudden rampage

* Psychotic disorders of the self - their own thoughts and experiences are experienced as externally influenced or managed to complete loss of control over thoughts and feelings

Modern science divides psychiatric medicines called neuroleptics in the past of "typical" and "atypical" antipsychotics. The second group includes a new generation of drugs that are equally effective, but with a more favorable profile of side effects. In the description of target symptoms, it is clear that the drugs are known far more effective for positive symptoms of the disorder and less effective or ineffective at negative disorder symptoms. The aim of the pharmacological industry is the creation of drugs clearly affect negative symptoms of schizophrenia associated with long-term disability in these patients.

Structuring and choice of therapeutic strategy is determined by stage of the schizophrenia disorder, previous "experience" with drugs and their tolerability. While the treatment in the acute phase is extremely drug and aims to quickly and fully address the symptoms described in the phase of maintenance therapy and protivoretsidivna attention is focused towards the quality and length of remissions, good tolerance to the drug and provide assistance to patients for long-term (sometimes for life) treatment.

In this phase, medical treatment is also important that the inclusion of a number of psychosocial rehabilitation procedures, the patient's early return to his normal family and working environment. This reduces the risk of disadaptation, isolation and disability.