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