Mental Health

Sleep apnea syndrome

There are 12 main clinical signs of sleep apnea syndrome: loud snoring, abnormal motor activity during sleep, increased daytime sleepiness, hypnagogic hallucinations, enuresis, morning headaches, arterial hypertension, decreased libido, personality changes, decreased intelligence.

Insomnia (insomnia)

Insomnia is "recurrent disturbances in the initiation, duration, consolidation, or quality of sleep that occur despite adequate time and conditions for sleep and that are characterized by disturbances in daytime activities of various kinds."

Sleep disorders

Sleep is a special genetically determined state of the organism of warm-blooded animals (i.e. mammals and birds), characterized by a regular sequential change of certain polygraphic pictures in the form of cycles, phases and stages. In this definition, attention should be paid to three supporting points: firstly, the presence of sleep is genetically predetermined, secondly, the structure of sleep is most perfect in higher species of the animal world and, thirdly, sleep must be recorded objectively.

Cognitive impairment

Dementia (from Latin de - "loss", mentos - "mind"; synonym - feeblemindedness) - acquired stable multifunctional cognitive impairment (deterioration of memory, intelligence, mental performance, etc.), expressed to a significant degree, determined against the background of clear consciousness, caused by organic damage to the brain.

Disorder of speech and language development in a child

Speech and language development disorders are a group of disorders in which normal speech development is disrupted from an early age and is in significant discrepancy with the overall level of cognitive functioning.

Increased appetite

Increased appetite may be observed in brain tumors, in particular, in the hypothalamic region, in some cases with congenital underdevelopment of the central nervous system, long-term use of steroid hormones, sometimes phthivazid, some antihistamines. Polyphagia is also observed in patients with some forms of malabsorption, chronic pancreatitis, and duodenal ulcer.

Decreased appetite

In the neonatal period, all pathological conditions that make the act of sucking difficult lead to a decrease in appetite: rhinitis, congenital defects in the development of the posterior nasal openings (stenosis, atresia), organic lesions of the central nervous system, suppression of the sucking reflex, for example, in prematurity or birth trauma, diseases of the oral mucosa,

Suicide and attempted suicide

Self-poisoning among girls aged 15–19 has increased by 250% in the last 20 years, with annual incidence rates in this population group exceeding 1% in some regions. Most self-poisonings are not usually fatal. Self-poisonings account for 4.7% of all admissions to general hospitals among people aged 12–20.

How to recognize and treat your own mental illness

Doctors have a high risk of suicide and alcoholism, so we must be prepared for this fact (and try to prevent it), as well as for other health-risk-related accidents (or patterns) in the professional and personal life of a doctor.

Neuropsychiatric anorexia and bulimia

Symptoms of anorexia usually appear at the age of 16-17 (12 years for boys), often after a strict diet. The patient begins to attach great importance to weight loss (it becomes an overvalued idea), and she begins to think that she is repulsively fat, while in fact she is losing weight.

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