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Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When

Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal 

Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume

Deficits

Paula Andrea Velásquez Viveros

Medicine Student 

introduction

Different studies have helped to researchers solve several poligenic and monogenic disorders, giving better quality of life and making possible the cure for rare pathologies.

Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2011)

Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

The causes of bipolar disorder aren’t completely understood, but it often runs in families. The first manic or depressive episode of bipolar disorder usually occurs in the teenage years or early adulthood.

Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

There are different states in manic-deppressive illness:

Depression: feeling sad and hopeless, lacking in energy, difficulty concentrating, etc.Mania: feeling very happy, elated or euphoric, talking very quickly, feeling full of energy. feeling full of self-importance

In bipolar disorder there are more episodes of depression

than episodes of mania (or vice versa).

Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

OBSERVATION

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal

ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2011)

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal

The gland regulates various bodily functions, like, metabolism, growth, and sexual development.

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even When Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal

OBSERVATION

MEDICAL UTILITY • These researches are

becoming in a good entrance for scientific world, increasing the search rate for access to research about different disorders.

MEDICAL UTILITY 

These disorders provide researchers looking for the treatment about different and complicated illness that makes harder quality life patient.

MEDICAL UTILITY  Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

research gave to doctors and different people in medicine area information about it, because someones think that hypotyroidism is the same that Hashimoto’s disease, but molecular studies showed the real

theory.

MEDICAL UTILITY 

It’s essentialshow that people with bipolar disorder that take lithium is avoiding brain volume reduction. Provinding people better lifestyle.

BIBLIOGRAFY

MARTINEZ S. Lina María . Biología molecular . 6 . Ed. Medellín: FACULTAD DE MEDICINA. Paginas 155 a 171.

  Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain

Volume Deficits. ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2011)   Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis Can Affect Quality of Life Even

When Thyroid Gland Function Is Normal. ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2011)

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