Archive for July, 2008

Vocational rehabilitation

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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Definition
Vocational rehabilitation (VR) is a set of services offered to individuals with mental or physical disabilities. These services are designed to enable participants to attain skills, resources, attitudes, and expectations needed to compete in the interview process, get a job, and keep a job. Services offered may also help an individual retrain for employment [...]

Valproic acid

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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Definition
Valproic acid is an anticonvulsant (anti-seizure) drug. In the United States, valproic acid is also known as valproate, and is sold under the brand name Depakene.

Purpose
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes valproic acid for the treatment of epilepsy and for mania that occurs with bipolar disorder (previously called [...]

Vascular dementia

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Definition
Dementia is a decline in a person’s mental capacities and intellectual abilities that is great enough to affect the person’s normal daily functioning. Vascular dementia is dementia that is caused by disease of the blood vessels of the brain (cerebrovascular disease).

Description
Vascular dementia is caused by cerebrovascular disease that occurs almost entirely in the elderly. People [...]

Valerian

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Definition
Valerian is an herbal remedy derived from the dried roots of the valerian plant, Valeriana officinalis. The plant belongs to the Valerianaceae family. It has been used for over a thousand years as a mild sedative and hypnotic (a preparation that brings on sleep). Valerian is native to Europe and parts of Asia; it has [...]

Venlafaxine

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Definition
Venlafaxine is an antidepressant available in the United States under the trade name of Effexor or Effexor XR.

Purpose
Venlafaxine is used to treat depression and generalized anxiety disorder. It has also been used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder and irritable bowel syndrome.

Description
Venlafaxine is an antidepressant. It has actions common to both the cyclic antidepressants such as imipramine(Tofranil) [...]

Urine drug screening

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Definition
Urine drug screening, or toxicological screening, is a process of chemical analysis designed to test patients for drug abuse, or to insure that a patient is substance-free before undergoing a medical procedure.

Description
Urine drug screening can be used to evaluate possible accidental or intentional overdose or poisoning, to assess the type and amount of prescribed and/or [...]

Undifferentiated somatoform disorder

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Definition
Undifferentiated somatoform disorder occurs when a person has physical complaints for more than six months that cannot be attributed to a medical condition. If there is a medical condition present, the complaints must be far more severe than can be accounted for by the presence of the medical problem.

Description
The physical complaints that are expressed by [...]

Trimipramine

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Definition
Trimipramine is an oral tricyclic antidepressant. It is sold in the United States under the brand name Surmontil.

Purpose
Trimipramine is used primarily to treat depression and to treat the combination of symptoms of anxiety and depression. Like most antidepressants of this chemical and pharmacological class, trimipramine has also been used in limited numbers of patients to [...]

Trihexyphenidyl

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Definition
Trihexyphenidyl is classified as an antiparkinsonian agent. It is sold in the United States under the brand name Artane and is also available under its generic name.

Purpose
Trihexyphenidyl is used to treat a group of side effects (called parkinsonian side effects) that include tremors, difficulty walking, and slack muscle tone. These side effects may occur in [...]

Trifluoperazine

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Definition
Trifluoperazine is a phenothiazine antipsychotic agent. In the United States, this drug is sold under the brand name Stelazine.

Purpose
Trifluoperazine is a drug used to treat psychotic disorders, agitation, and dementia.

Description
Trifluoperazine is an effective agent in treating symptoms of psychotic behavior. When used for the treatment of schizophrenia, trifluoperazine reduces symptoms of emotional withdrawal, anxiety, tension, [...]