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The prognosis for resolution of anxiety depends on the specific disorder and a wide variety of factors, including the patient's age, sex, general health, living situation, belief system, social support network, and responses to different anxiolyti...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
The prognosis for resolution of anxiety depends on the specific disorder and a wide variety of factors, including.the patient's age, sex, general health, living situation, belief system, social support network, and responses to different anxiolyti...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Studies consistently report that anxiety disorders can be debilitating and impinge seriously on a person's quality of life. Despite their common occurrence, little is underbstood about the natural course of anxiety disorder.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Insomnia is difficulty falling or staying asleep. In many cases, it can be relieved with a few simple behavioral changes or medication.
Source:ADAM
Date:April 25, 2008
Insomnia is the inability to obtain an adequate amount or quality of sleep. The difficulty can be in falling asleep, remaining asleep, or both.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Insomnia is the inability to obtain an adequate amount or quality of sleep. The difficulty can be in falling asleep, remaining asleep, or both.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Insomnia is a condition that occurs when a person in unable to get long enough or refreshing enough sleep at night. Insomnia can result from an inability to fall asleep, an inability to stay asleep, or waking too early before having gotten enough ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
A headache is pain or discomfort in the head, scalp, or neck. Serious causes of headaches are extremely rare.
Source:ADAM
Date:June 19, 2008
The extracranial and intracranial pain-sensitive structures all project pain sensation to the cranial surface, usually fairly near to the source of pain. Because many such sources register their pain in the same general area, a pain in any location may represent disordered function in any of several structures, intracranial or extracranial.
Source:Elsevier
A headache is a pain in the head and neck region that may be either a disorder in its own right or a symptom.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
A headache signifies activation of the primary afferent fibers that innervate cephalic blood vessels, chiefly meningeal or cerebral blood vessels. Most nociceptive fibers innervating these structures arise from pseudounipolar neurons located within the trigeminal ganglia (first division), although some may be located within the upper cervical ganglia.
Source:Elsevier
A headache involves pain in the head which can arise from many disorders or may be a disorder in and of itself.There are three types of primary headaches: tension-type(muscular contraction headache), migraine(vascular headaches), and cluster. Virt...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A headache involves pain in the head that can arise from many disorders or may be a disorder in and of itself.Headaches can be categorized as primary or secondary. Primary headaches occur independently and are not the result of another medical pro...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Headache is a pain in the head and neck region that may be either a disorder in its own right or a symptom of an underlying medical condition or disease. The medical term for headache is cephalalgia.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Drug abuse is the use of illegal drugs, or the misuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs.Substance abuse; Illicit drug abuse; Narcotic abuse; Hallucinogen abuse.MARIJUANA(also called"grass,""pot,""reefer,""joint,""hashish,""cannabis,""weed,...
Source:ADAM
Date:January 15, 2009
Medication abuse occurs when patients do not take medication in the prescribed manner, when they use other people''s medication, or when they combine prescribed medication with over-the counter, traditional, or herbal medicines. Such medication mis...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Substance abuse is a pattern of behavior that displays many adverse results from continual use of a substance. Substance dependence is a group of behavioral and physiological symptoms that indicate the continual, compulsive use of a substance in s...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Substance abuse is the continued compulsive use of mind-altering substances despite personal, social, and/or physical problems caused by the substance use. Abuse may lead to dependence, in which increased amounts are needed to achieve the desired ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
In addition to those trained specifically as substance abuse counselors, mental health and rehabilitation counselors work with individuals who abuse alcohol and other drugs.Counselors who work with substance abusers should have the same qualities ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Substance abuse is a pattern of drug, alcohol or other substance use that creates many adverse results from its continual use. The characteristics of abuse are a failure to carry out obligations at home or work, continual use under circumstances t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Substance abuse and dependence refer to any continued pathological use of a medication, non-medically indicated drug(called drugs of abuse), or toxin. Although there are on-going debates on the exact distinctions between substance abuse and substa...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Public health has an opportunity to address the issues of substance use, abuse, and dependency across all age groups in the community since it occurs in all age groups. Substance abuse prevention and treatment professionals are acutely aware that ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention(CSAP) is the U.S. agency responsible for the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug problems in the U.S. population. Because such problems are intrinsically linked with other public health proble...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) refers to a complex disorder of the lower intestinal tract. It is mainly characterized by a pattern of symptoms that is often worsened by emotional stress.It is not the same as inflammatory bowel disease(IBD), which i...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 22, 2008
Irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) is a common gastrointestinal condition characterized by abdominal pain and cramps; changes in bowel movements( diarrhea, constipation, or both); gassiness; bloating; nausea; and other symptoms. There is no cure for IB...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) is a common intestinal condition characterized by abdominal pain and cramps; changes in bowel movements(diarrhea, constipation, or both); gassiness; bloating; nausea; and other symptoms. There is no recognized cure fo...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Irritable bowel syndrome(IBS) is a common intestinal condition characterized by abdominal pain and cramps; changes in bowel movements( diarrhea, constipation, or both); gassiness; bloating; nausea; and other symptoms. There is no cure for IBS.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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