Yael Levy states that getting chronic nightmares when she was in elementary schools, while staying in Israel. The holocaust survivor states that all her dreams were filled with death and sufferings. In a nightmare that appeared recurrently, Levy was trapped facing death and another nightmare she was left to drown in deep water. Nightmare left her desperately fatigue and jittery.

She woke up terrified always and was scared for going to sleep. Levy stated that the horrific feelings were difficult to get rid of. She remained scared throughout the following day.

Bad Dream or Chronic Nightmare?

There is nothing strange about getting seldom nightmares which is stated by the experts in sleep as the bad dream which makes the sleeper to get up from sleep. But around eight percent of the populations among adults are suffering from chronic nightmares, which make them to wake up during sleep which takes place minimum once in a week.

In some cases, the nightmare could be very frequent which makes sleeping totally impossible for the people and makes them set stages for emotional as well fatigue related issues like depression, anxiety and other mental illusions. Nightmares could vary from separate contents to anything. It could be caused due to sadness, fear, shame, anger or some negative feeling. They usually occur at the sleep which takes at the second part of the night. It is more commonly found among adolescents and children, they might even strike adults.

In most situations, nightmares are caused due to psychological stress like trauma and stress related disorders, anxiety disorders which attacks the individuals who have got exposure to violent attacks, combat, natural disaster, accidents or any horrific ordeals. Other reasons for chronic nightmare might include abuse from alcohol, use of other drugs like antidepressant, and disordered breathing disedease like sleep apnea.

Beset Due to Nightmares

Nightmares can be caused to any women and Levy whose age is 29 and lives in New York along with her hubby and son who is four months old, states that she has come across several years of disturbed sleep and continuous anxiety due to chronic nightmares. She did not think that there was no help for this disease.

Many people do get nightmares and I suffered from mine. I never knew that there were treatments for these. But this is a common myth. Many people consider that nightmares cannot be treated. But as Shelby Harris, who is an expert in behavioral sleep medical programs, has stated that Nightmare can be treated effectively.

Treatment for Chronic Nightmares

One of the best choices for treatment is psychodynamic therapy, where patients have to check with a psychotherapist regularly to explain about the nightmares and think about the emotional problems behind them.

Another choice is to take a drug called prazosin, which is suggested for people with high blood pressure, research has proved that the taking of these drugs before sleep could be effective for treating nightmares caused due to post traumatic disorders.

But Levy did not find any relief from psychotherapy or drugs but using certain simple methods of behavioral training, which she was taught by Harris after getting treatment related to insomnia and not nightmares.

It has been recently found out that a common drug which is used cure high levels of blood pressure may also be used in treating the lethal disease of multiple sclerosis.

A recent study throws light on the fact that a common and an economical drug used for optimizing high blood pressure called lisinopril has helped tremendously and been fruitful in blocking the growth of multiple sclerosis of the mice that are subjects in the laboratory. The mice were made to consume the drug as they had matured and all the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. This helped in transforming their paralysis without harming their immunity of the body.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a painful and a deadly disease that has a detrimental effect on the body’s resistant system. This results in the malfunctioning of the immune system of the body. This disease may ultimately lead to paralysis or death of the patient. One of the biggest drawbacks is that the disease is complex and curing it means that the body’s immune system will be affected adversely.

Blood Pressure Drug – Lisinopril

According to researcher Lawrence Steinman, MD, Stanford University, states that the ailment of multiple sclerosis and high levels of blood pressure both include inflammatory process that may be advantageous if cured by the drug – lisinopril. If the research concludes the same then the medicinal value of the drug will surely be a great and an economical way of curing the nasty ailment.

This research was mentioned in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was thoroughly researched and the after effects of the drug that was consumed by the mice led to the manifestation and growth of brain lesions that is common in people suffering from MS after they are treated with chemical doses.

The Experiment

The team of researchers gave the mice equal portions of the drug – lisinopril that is given to control high levels of blood pressure prior and after the injection causing the disease.

The conclusion was the mice that had consumed the dose before the injection had no shown no signs of paralysis that is commonly linked to MS. The mice that were given the drug after the injection clearly displayed the signs of re-occurrence of paralysis.

The researchers were surprised to find that the cure with the drug had effectively diminished few of the soreness markers that are generally found during the occurrence of MS which affects the overall function of the immune system.

This research also triggered the fact that the drug manifested the creation of a significant number of immune cells that are termed as regulatory T cells that safeguard against any immune ailment.

According to Steinman this is bound to be a new and a challenging avenue for research which may result in path breaking achievements in treating MS.

He states that they were interesting and fascinating facts that have surfaced after this experiment or else it would have been another research paper that would told people what all could have been done in mice. He mentioned in the press conference that they are ready to curative calculation in MS caused in human beings.

Research Shows Malfunction in Brain’s Reward Center is Associated with Symptoms of ADHD; A disease linked with reward pathway of the brain can be associated with the symptoms related to ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder).

As per the new study, the malfunction in the pathway of the human brain interferes with the experience of people with motivation and reward. A chemical which is required in brain for standard operation of the nervous system is Dopamine.

The shortages in the reward system of the brain system can help in explicating the clinical symptoms related to ADHD, which includes reduced motivation and inattention and also the chances for the complication like obesity and drug abuse among the patients suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as per the researcher Nora Volknow, the director and head of the National Drug Abuse Institute who has expressed his views in the news release.

Basics About ADHD

ADHD is a psychological disorder that occurs mainly among children and could also occur in adults and it has said to affect around three to five percent of the adults in United States of America. The researchers have stated that the results could offers various new insights about the Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity disorder and the reasons behind the people affected with ADHD to opt for drug abuse and extreme obesity.

The study about this disease was released in the American Medical association journal. They made use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan of the brain to calculate the dopamine markers in the brain with fifty three adults who were non-medicated with ADHD and also made a comparison with another group containing forty four adults who were healthy and did not suffer from ADHD.

The results proved that when the people suffering from ADHD were compared with healthy individuals, the people who had ADHD had loss of dopamine receptors which are the transporters in two important regions of brain that are associated with motivation and reward.

Use of Brain Stimulants to Increase Dopamine levels

This brain pathway is very important as it plays major role in motivations, reinforcement and in knowing about association of different stimuli with the rewards as per the reports of Volkow. The involvement of the pathway of the brain in ADHD helps the use of intercessions to improve the relevance and appeal of work and school tasks for improving the performance of children.

The results from the study supports the ongoing usage of the medications for stimulation, the most standard medications used for the pharmacological ADHD treatments that have shown increase in the concentrations towards cognitive tasks by increasing the dopamine levels in the brain as per the report of Volkaw. By making use of stimulant drugs to enhance level of dopamine in brain, the ADHD symptoms can be reduced and the patients can feel better.