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broad term used for a syndrome that involves a slowly progressive chronic confusion   dementia  
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the most common form of dementia   alzheimer's disease  
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an acute state of confusion   delerium  
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delerium is usually reversible within ______ wks   3  
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in addition to cognitive changes associated with delerium , pts may also be _________   hyperactive or hypoactive  
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a _______ is a mental health condition charecterized by delusions, hallucinations, illuions, disorganized behavior, and difficulty relating to others   psychosis  
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firm ideas and beleifs not founded in reality   delusions  
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perceptions of seeing hearing or feeling something that is not there   hallucinations  
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distorted perceptions of actual sensory stimuli   illusions  
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an extreme suspicion and delusion that they are being followed and that others are trying to harm them   paranoia  
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the most common psychotic disorder   schizophrenia  
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excessive or added behaviors that are not normally seen in mentally healthy adults   positive symptoms  
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the loss of normal function normally seen in mentally healthy adults   negative symptoms  
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for some people with shizophrenia, there is defeciency of _____ _______ in the hippocampus   nicotinic receptors  
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individuals with schizophrenia have a 20% shorter ________ _______ than the general populations   life expectancy  
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S/E of antipsychotic medication include ?   weight gain and metabolic syndrome  
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when clients have symptoms that appear to be a mixture of schizophrenia and mood disorders.   schizoaffective disorders  
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the rapid onset of psychotic symptoms that lasts at least 1 day but less than 1 month, after which the person returns to the premorbid level of functioning   breif psychotic disorder  
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conditionsame as breif psychotic disorder but symptoms last at least 3-6 months and 2/3rds of pts progress to schizophrenia   schizophreniform disorder  
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when a person in a close relationship with another person who is delusional comes to share the delusional beleifs   shared psychotic disorder  
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