Primary symptoms, cause, and fundamental treatment strategies of common psychiatric diseases
Psychiatric disorders | Symptoms | Affected brain area | Causes | Treatment |
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Schizophrenia | Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, avolition, diminished emotional expression, cognitive impairments | Frontal and temporal lobes, hippocampus, amygdala, and thalamus |
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Anxiety disorders | Chest pain, palpitations, respiratory difficulty, headache fear, tachycardia, shortness of breath, sweating | Amygdala, hypothalamus, locus coeruleus |
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Depression | Poor mental health, high suicide risk, decreased quality of life, drug addiction | Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, and Brodmann Area 25 |
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Major depressive disorder | Depressed mood, sadness, poor pleasure feeling, insomnia, excessive guilty feeling, hopelessness, problem to concentrate on work, suicidal thinking | Hypothalamus, limbic system, basal ganglia, and cerebellum |
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DTNBP1: dystrobrevin binding protein 1; NRG1: neuregulin 1; COMT: catechol-O-methyl transferase; RGS4: regulator of G-protein signaling 4; GRM3: glutamate metabotropic receptor 3; DISC1: disrupted in schizophrenia 1; DAOA: D-amino acid oxidase activator; GABA: γ-aminobutyric acid
SS: Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. DB: Supervision. The authors have agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Dr. Blum is the inventor of the Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS), USA and foreign patents and KB220 Patented products. The other author declare that there is no conflicts of interest.
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