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Geriatric psychiatry

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Geriatric psychiatry, also known as geropsychiatry, psychogeriatric or psychiatry of old age, is a branch of medicine and a subspecialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, prevention, and treatment of neurodegenerative, cognitive impairment, and mental disorders in people of old age. Geriatric psychiatry as a subspecialty has significant overlap with the specialties of geriatric medicine, behavioral neurology, neuropsychiatry, neurology, and general psychiatry. Geriatric psychiatry has become an official subspecialty of psychiatry with a defined curriculum of study and core competencies.                                                      

OCD

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions). These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress. Symptoms Obsessive-compulsive disorder usually includes both obsessions and compulsions. But it's also possible to have only obsession symptoms or only compulsion symptoms. You may or may not realize that your obsessions and compulsions are excessive or unreasonable, but they take up a great deal of time and interfere with your daily routine and social, school or work functioning.                                     

Strokes and Trauma

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With increased mindfulness of the violent impact of traumatic brain injury in recent times, a common question is whether or not traumatic brain injury can beget strokes. Numerous well- known athletes have spoken of traumatic brain injury and how it affected their lives times after quitting sports. Traumatic brain injury exploration has also set up an association between traumatic brain injury and stroke. After trauma, strokes are common. Indeed, while recent generalities of stroke count pathologies directly related to trauma, there are still numerous mechanisms by which posterior ischemia or haemorrhage may be caused by a previous traumatic event.                                       

Sleep Disorders

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Sleep disorders (or sleep-wake disorders) involve problems with the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, which result in daytime distress and impairment in functioning. Sleep-wake disorders often occur along with medical conditions or other mental health conditions, such as depression, anxiety, or cognitive disorders. There are several different types of sleep-wake disorders, of which insomnia is the most common. Other sleep-wake disorders include obstructive sleep apnea, parasomnias, narcolepsy, and restless leg syndrome. Sleep difficulties are linked to both physical and emotional problems .Sleep problems can both contribute to complicate mental health conditions and can be a symptom of other mental health condition.           Pervasive experimental diseases           Attention deficiency hyperactivity complaint

Addiction psychiatry

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  Addiction psychiatry  is a medical subspecialty within the psychiatry that focuses on the evaluation and opinion and treatment of people who all are suffering from one or further diseases related to dependence. This may also include to diseases which involve legal and illegal medicines and gambling and food and other impulse control diseases. Dependence may be a condition that issues when a person ingests a substance(e.g., liquor, cocaine, nicotine) or takes part during a movement(e.g., laying, coitus, shopping) which will be enjoyable yet the durability of which finishes up plainly  impulsive  and  meddles  with standard duties and enterprises, for case, work, connections, or good.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Child Mental health focuses on the identification, bracket of diseases, treatment and maintains optimum  cerebral functioning , well- being and ideal internal working and substance. Child and adolescent specialists unnaturally use psychotherapy or potentially medicine to treat internal issues in the paediatric crowd. Also anticipates heftiness and weight related affections, for  illustration,  diabetes, nutritive scarcities , pulmonary  embolism, Depression. Child psychiatry is else called as  paediatric psychiatry . ·           Child abuse and negligence ·           Emotional and Behavioral diseases ·           Social impact ·           Attention- deficiency/ Hyperactivity complaint ( ADHD) ·           Aggression and violence

Psychotherapy & Psychology

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Psychotherapy is conducted with individuals, groups, couples and families. Psychotherapists help people to overcome stress, emotional and relationship problems or troublesome habits. There are many different approaches in psychotherapy, or talking therapies, which include: cognitive behavioral therapies psychoanalytic therapies psychodynamic therapies Psychology is the study of people: how they think, how they act, react and interact. It's concerned with all aspects of behavior and the thoughts, feelings and motivation underlying such behavior. Psychologists can specialize in a number of areas, such as mental health and educational and occupational psychology. In healthcare, psychologists specialize in clinical, counselling, forensic or health psychology.