Behaviour neurotherapy clinics can help improve mental health

Usually, the brain is one of the commonest sites for cancer metastasis or migration. For this reason, the brain is usually a center of interest for all oncologist professionals.  I have spent some good time during the last month (may) undertaking extensive studies on the brain lesions, anatomy and patho-physiology of the brain systems. 

Sunday, June 01, 2014
Dr Joseph Kamugisha

Usually, the brain is one of the commonest sites for cancer metastasis or migration. For this reason, the brain is usually a center of interest for all oncologist professionals. 

I have spent some good time during the last month (may) undertaking extensive studies on the brain lesions, anatomy and patho-physiology of the brain systems. 

A few days back had chance to work alongside one of our professors in his neuro-oncology clinic consultations. This work enlightened me of the urgent need to learn and understand more about the cognitive factors associated with brain abnormalities. 

This offers a broad base guidance to the neurotherapy and helps in screening patients who might carry minor or chronic or aggressive brain lesions. 

Most of the cancerous lesions require aggressive means of treatment and have exclusive procedures to perform. 

However, there are other abnormalities that affect high centers of the brain like the cerebral cortex that make people become impaired in their daily activities.

In our casual life, we tend to only classify symptomatic people with psychology problems as being sick but there also many other asymptomatic individuals with neuro-psychological problems who need help. 

In the current modern era, we strive for life with social and economic transformation and therefore need improvements in all aspects of life. Our brain guide us in everything we do and this always calls for healthy thoughts.

Personality disorders or toxic behavior can be defined in various ways. But in a common understanding can be defined as an enduring patterns  of inner experience that are sufficiently rigid and deep-seated to bring a person into repeated conflicts with his or her social or occupational surroundings. 

Such disorders are scientifically termed as abnormal psychology.  When one deviates from the accepted behavior in a society, people may categorize him as being toxic or abnormal behavior. 

This is a situation that calls for neurotherapy clinics with interventions of clinical psychologist, psychiatrists and social workers. 

Personality disorders are similar to physical illness. There are different types of psychological conditions that can affect an individual. Most of the personality disorders originate from the chemical or physical imbalance of the brain.

Majority of individuals suffering from such psychological imbalances cannot easily realize their wrongness and this is why we need a broad based, professionalized management of such people. This will help us live in a society free from intrigues and conflicts.

Majority of individuals with toxic behavior usually does possess communication problems and lack of communication is usually the basis of conflicts at all levels of life.

In our traditional society, most of the work to solve personality disorders has been left to our domestic parents and the police. But for change in terms of development, we need to handle them in a scientific manner. 

Each and every person has a unique personality. The way a person think, behave and express emotions is specific to each individual. 

Such traits are usually specific to the individual mindsets that become converted into disorders especially when the behavior becomes extreme and inflexible. Such cases call for intervention of neurotherapy treatment. 

As already noticed in our society, most of these problems begin in childhood and develop with age. 

Any trauma that can be emotional or mental suffered during childhood can lead to behavior problems. 

People under this category experience emotions different from the normal pattern and function differently in society. 

They cannot control their impulses at times and become a danger to themselves as well as the society.

One of the management protocols for personality disorders is psychotherapy.

 Psychotherapy involves talking to the person as regards issues related to his disorder. He or she learns about his moods, feelings and behavior during the psychotherapy sessions. There are different types of psychotherapy sessions and this can be explained by neurotherapy experts.

In most of symptomatic patients, doctors prescribe medications such as antidepressants, antianxiety medications as well as other types of anti-psychotic medications to treat and control such disorders.

Dr Joseph Kamugisha is a resident oncologist in Jerusalem, Israel