Mental Health and Psychosocial Aspects of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak in Ethiopia: Psychological Intervention for Public Psychological Crisis
Yordanos Yibeltal Yedemie
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2020
Pages:
56-60
Received:
22 July 2020
Accepted:
17 August 2020
Published:
8 September 2020
Abstract: The unpredictable COVID-19 occurrence has the potential of adversely affecting the mental wellbeing on individual and public level. At present all efforts are listening carefully on the understanding of epidemiology, clinical diagnosis and prognosis, frustrate the spread of the virus, and challenges of worldwide physical condition, while crucially significant mental wellbeing has been unnoticed in this attempt. This analysis is to assess past outbreaks to know the degree of adverse effects on Psychological panic, mental wellbeing, psychological crisis intervention, and mental health management strategy. COVID-19 is leading to severe psychosocial panics and comprising mental health marking a secondary health concern in globe. Internationally implementing preventive and controlling measures, and humanizing coping and resilience are demanding factors; modified lifestyle; symptoms, transmission, prevention and treatment; marginalization and hostility and universal collision on education, health, and climate are some of the risk factors to make worse further panics.
Abstract: The unpredictable COVID-19 occurrence has the potential of adversely affecting the mental wellbeing on individual and public level. At present all efforts are listening carefully on the understanding of epidemiology, clinical diagnosis and prognosis, frustrate the spread of the virus, and challenges of worldwide physical condition, while crucially ...
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Info-Relational Cognitive Operability of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex According to the Informational Model of Consciousness
Issue:
Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2020
Pages:
61-68
Received:
24 August 2020
Accepted:
7 September 2020
Published:
24 September 2020
Abstract: Based on the analysis of the accumulated experimental data and on the informational concepts of the Informational Model of Consciousness (IMC), in this article is presented an informational modeling of the operability of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Examination of the experimental results obtained with the modern non-destructive, high spatial resolution investigation tools to study the functional characteristics of the PCC and associate metabolic processes, shows mainly that this is involved in the large scale default mode network (DMN), composed primarily by PCC, medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), and the inferior parietal lobe (IPL), displaying an increased activity under passive task conditions (i.e. negative mode). This operability mode is in an opposing balance with attention and task performances mode, acting thus as a disruption process. One of the main conclusions is that the PCC cognitive orientation is primarily focused on the self person or on the “self” (I) projected from others, in “daydreaming” or “mind-wandering" wakeful rest, involved in present or future virtual projects. In spite of these advances, the particular role and specific functions of PCC are not yet fully understood, PCC remaining an enigmatic/contradictory structure of the brain, not included up to date in any brain model, so the PCC informational modeling presented here in terms of IMC covers this lack. IMC assigns to the brain the fundamental role of informational processor, composed by various operating structures according to specific objectives synthetically expressed by seven main cognitive centers of “self" (I) as: Iknow (memory), Iwant (decision), Ilove (emotions), Iam (self-status), Icreate (genetic transmission), Icreated (genetic inheritance), Ibelive (info-selection), assuring the info-connectivity with the body and external/internal world, the adaptability (learning process) and survival. It is deduced in this way that the specific behavior of PCC according to its intermediary architectural position between the vital central region of the brain, connecting the mind with the external/internal reality, is that of a moderator/integrator hub/informational YES/NO switcher from the external/awake captured focusing information to the internal accumulated experience of life, used as a valid reference. Therefore, the specific operability of PCC in terms of cognitive centers is that of an informational switcher, mainly operating with Iknow/Iwant to explore the self-status reflected in Iam, within day-dreaming/imaginary virtual sceneries.
Abstract: Based on the analysis of the accumulated experimental data and on the informational concepts of the Informational Model of Consciousness (IMC), in this article is presented an informational modeling of the operability of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Examination of the experimental results obtained with the modern non-destructive, high spat...
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