Psychiatrist Prof. Dr. Kemal Arıkan › Mood Disorders

Mood Disorders

What is P300 and What Does it Do?

P300 Nedir ve Ne İşe Yarar?

Psychiatric disorders have a great many parameters, such as personal, social, genetic, biochemical aspects. Starting from the middle of the past century, scientists have benefited from different technological developments in revealing the relationship between the structural status of the brain and mood disorders. EEG (Electroencephalography) is one of the methods that are frequently used to analyze the relationships that these disorders establish with electro-physiological variables.

Which are the tricyclic antidepressants?

The effect of tricyclic antidepressants usually sets in 2-3 weeks after starting treatment. They have achieved improvement in many psychiatric pictures which in previous years remained untreated.

What is a Bipolar Disorder?

‘Manic depressive psychosis’ which was first defined at the end of the 1800’s, and can be described as a psychological disorder in which episodes of mania and episodes of depression occur at different times in the same patient. Except for these periods the person is entirely healthy.

Antidepressant Drugs

Antidepressants are drugs used to relieve the symptoms of depression. They were first developed in the 1950’s and are being extensively used for approximately 50 years.

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