scholarly journals Effects of essential oils on central nervous system: Focus on mental health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena R. Lizarraga‐Valderrama
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Essential Oils ◽  
System Focus

scholarly journals Neurological and mental health consequences of COVID-19: potential implications for well-being and labor force

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I B Meier ◽  
C Vieira Ligo Teixeira ◽  
I Tarnanas ◽  
F Mirza ◽  
L Rajendran
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Immune Cell ◽  
Previous History ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Neurological Protection

Abstract Recent case studies show that the SARS-CoV-2 infectious disease, COVID-19, is associated with accelerated decline of mental health, in particular, cognition in elderly individuals, but also with neurological and neuropsychiatric illness in young people. Recent studies also show a bidirectional link between COVID-19 and mental health in that people with previous history of psychiatric illness have a higher risk for contracting COVID-19 and that COVID-19 patients display a variety of psychiatric illnesses. Risk factors and the response of the central nervous system to the virus show large overlaps with pathophysiological processes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, delirium, post-operative cognitive dysfunction and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, all characterized by cognitive impairment. These similarities lead to the hypothesis that the neurological symptoms could arise from neuroinflammation and immune cell dysfunction both in the periphery as well as in the central nervous system and the assumption that long-term consequences of COVID-19 may lead to cognitive impairment in the well-being of the patient and thus in today’s workforce, resulting in large loss of productivity. Therefore, particular attention should be paid to neurological protection during treatment and recovery of COVID-19, while cognitive consequences may require monitoring.

scholarly journals Historical aspects of studying the influence of physical activity on the mental health of people

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Sergii Ivashchenko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Joint Activities

This article presents the main results of work on the study of the issue of the historical process of improving knowledge about the influence of physical activity of a person on the level of his mental health. Based on the results of the analysis of scientific information presented in modern domestic and foreign literary sources, the conclusion was substantiated that the historical process of improving knowledge about human nature and his mental activity in recent years has reached the highest level of development. The study of the long-term experience of scientists in many countries of the world gives grounds to assert that the beginning of the process of targeted study of the effect of physical activity on human mental functions was laid back in the last century. However, scientists have achieved the most outstanding results in this area of scientific research in recent decades. The historical need for in-depth research in this scientific direction was maturing gradually and was due to the peculiarities of the course of scientific and technological progress in general. Due to the fact that it was in recent decades that many discoveries were made, which formed the basis of modern methods for studying the physiological state of a person and his intellectual functions, there was obvious progress in the study of the mental health of persons whose central nervous system works under conditions of extreme intellectual and psycho-emotional stress. Scientists working in the field of physical education and sports, in collaboration with scientists in the field of education and health, have significantly intensified their joint activities and developed modern complexes of measures aimed at studying the mental health of students and representatives of the teaching staff of state institutions of higher education. This contingent of the subjects was not chosen by chance. The fact is that the learning process in higher education institutions is associated with intense loads on the central nervous system of both students and teachers, as well as on some of their senses (in particular, on the visual and auditory analyzers).

Pesticides

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 602-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA Y. CABRERA
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mental Function ◽  
Molecular Systems ◽  
Chemical Exposures ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
The Central Nervous System

Abstract:There is growing evidence about the influence of chemical exposures on specific molecular systems and mechanisms involved in cognitive and mental function. Evidence is also emerging about the negative impact of these chemical exposures on mental health, including depression, suicide, and other risks. Despite the growing appreciation of these factors, however, little attention has been paid to the ethical and social implications of their interactions. Drawing on recent work that argues for an environmental neuroethics approach that explicitly brings together ethics, environment, and conditions of the central nervous system, this article focuses on these critical issues for pesticides specifically.

scholarly journals Management of mental health disorders and central nervous system sequelae in HIV-positive children and adolescents

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Nassen ◽  
K Donald ◽  
K Walker ◽  
S Paruk ◽  
M Vujovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
The Impact

HIV-positive children and adolescents are at increased risk of both central nervous system (CNS) sequelae and mental disorders owing to a number of factors, including the impact of HIV infection on the brain, social determinants of health (e.g. poverty and orphanhood) and psychosocial stressors related to living with HIV. Every effort should be made to identify perinatally HIV-infected children and initiate them on antiretroviral therapy early in life. HIV clinicians should ideally screen for mental health and neurocognitive problems, as part of the routine monitoring of children attending antiretroviral clinics. This guideline is intended as a reference tool for HIV clinicians to support the early identification, screening and management of mental health disorders and/or CNS impairment in children and adolescents. This guideline covers mental disorders (section 1) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (section 2) among children and adolescents.  

Some Experiments in the Chemistry of Normal Sleep

1966 ◽  
Vol 112 (485) ◽  
pp. 391-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Oswald ◽  
G. W. Ashcroft ◽  
R. J. Berger ◽  
D. Eccleston ◽  
J. I. Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Brain Stem ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Reticular Activating System ◽  
Normal Sleep ◽  
Biochemical State ◽  
The Brain

Sleep is essential for physical and mental health. In the last 15 years there has grown up the concept of the brain stem reticular activating system. Electroencephalographic studies have shown two qualitatively different and alternating kinds of sleep, the orthodox (“slow wave”, or “forebrain“) and the paradoxical (”hind-brain“, “rapid eye movement”, “activated“, or “dreaming”) phases (Akert et al., 1965). It may be predicted that in the next decade attention will turn increasingly to the chemical basis of sleep. If a man is deprived of sleep for 100 hours, it is extremely difficult to keep him awake and one may suppose that an abnormal biochemical state exists within his central nervous system.

Sedative Effect of Monoterpene Alcohols in Mice: A Preliminary Screening

2007 ◽  
Vol 62 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 563-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damião Pergentino de Sousa ◽  
Ellen Raphael ◽  
Ursula Brocksom ◽  
Timothy John Brocksom
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Essential Oils ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Sedative Effect ◽  
Depressant Effect ◽  
Preliminary Screening ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Pharmacological Potential ◽  
Sedative Drugs

Many essential oils and monoterpenes are used therapeutically as relaxing drugs and tranquilizers. In this study, ten structurally related monoterpene alcohols, present in many essential oils, were evaluated in mice to investigate their pharmacological potential in the central nervous system. Isopulegol (1), neoisopulegol (2), (±)-isopinocampheol (3), (-)-myrtenol (4), (-)-cis-myrtanol (5), (+)-p-menth-1-en-9-ol (6) and (±)-neomenthol (8) exhibited a depressant effect in the pentobarbital-induced sleep test, indicating a sedative property. (-)- Menthol (7), (+)-dihydrocarveol (9), and (±)-isoborneol (10) were ineffective in this test. The results show that these psychoactive monoterpenes have the profile of sedative drugs, and this pharmacological effect is influenced by the structural characteristics of the molecules

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