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acute confusional state, characterized by disturbance of consciousness accompanied by variable degrees of COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT |
DELIRIUM |
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it is a descriptive term for a collection of symptoms that can be caused by a number of disorders that affect the brain |
dementia |
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progressive impairment of cognitive functions occurring in clear consciousnes |
dementia |
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significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activites and relationship |
dementia |
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frequent nocturnal episodes of confusion with agitation and restlessness |
dementia |
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marked by memory impairment and forgetfullness |
amenstic disorders |
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defined primarirl as an impairment in the ability to create new memories |
amnestic disorders |
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amyloid deposits |
alzheimers dementia |
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diffuse atrophy with flattened cortical sulci and enlareged cerebral ventricles |
alzheimers dementia |
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senile plaques, neurofibriallary tangles, neuronal loss, synaptic loss |
alzheimers dementia |
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most widely consumed psychoactive susbtance in the world |
caffeine |
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most addictive drug and most heavily used in the us |
nicotine |
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______ hand smoking places babies and children at risk for ingesting harmful substances sucha as heavy metals, carcinogens and radioactive material that settle on objects in the area of the smoke |
3rd |
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most common disorder diagnosed in the primary care, and family medicine setting
doesn't mean provider is right duhh |
anxiety disorder |
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most common diagnosed mental health diagnosis |
depression |
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elevated, expansive or irritable mood is the hallmark |
mania |
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pathologic gambling, tendency to disrobe in public places |
mania |
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a syndrome in which a complete set of mania symptoms occurs during the course of the disorder |
bipolar 1 disorder |
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distinct period of abnormality and persistently elevated expansive or irritable mood, lasting at least 1 wk |
bipolar 1
MANIC |
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mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functionaing or in unsualy social activities or relationships |
bipolar 1
MANIC |
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symptoms are not due to direct physiological effects of a susbstance or a genreal medical condition |
bipolar 1
MANIC |
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distinct period of persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting throughout at least 4 days, that is clearly different from the usual nondepressed mood. |
bipolar 1
HYPOMANIC |
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episode is associated with an unequivocal change in functioning that is uncharacteristics |
bipolar 1
HYPOMANIC |
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disturbance in mood and the chage in fucntioning are observable by others |
bipolar 1
HYPOMANIC |
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episode is not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning, or necessitate hospitalization |
bipolar 1
HYPOMANIC |
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presence or hx of one or more major depressie episode
presence or hx of at leaast one hypomanic episode
never has had a manic episode or mixed episode
symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning |
bipolar 2 |
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"ill humored" |
dysthymia |
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depressed mood lasting most of the day and is present continously |
dysthymia |
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assocd with feelings of inadequacy, guilt, irritability, and anger; withdrawal from society; loss of interest; and inactivity and lack of productivity |
dysthymia |
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distinguised from MDD by pts complaining that they have alway been depressed |
dysthymia |
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symptomatically a mild form of bipolar 2 disorder, characterized by episoded of hypomania and mild depression |
cyclothymic disorder |
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"chronic, fluctuating, disturbance" with many periods of hypomania and of depression |
cyclothymic disorder |
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disorder without a history of manic, mixed or hypomanic episode |
mdd |
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person reacts to this experience with fear and helplessness, persisistently relives the event, and treis to avoid being reminded of it |
ptsd |
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re expreience the vent in their dreams and their daily thoughts |
ptsd |
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an acute intense attack of anxiety by feelings of impending doom |
panic disorder |
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anxiety charactereized by discrete periods of intense fear that can vary from several attacks during one day to a few attacks during a year |
panic disorder |
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a fear of or anxiety regarding places from which escape might be difficult |
agoraphobia |
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can be the most disabling of the phobias because it can significantly interfere with a personals ability to function in work and social situations outside the home |
agoraphobia |
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a reaction to our thinking, beleifts, and underlying assumtions about life |
anxiety |
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false sensory perception occuring in the absence of any relevant external stimulation of the sensory modlity involved
hallucination vs illusion |
hallucination |
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perceptiual misinterpreation of a real external stimulus
hallucination vs illusion |
illusion |
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hypnagogic hypnopompic formication
when pt is falling asleep |
hypnagogic hallucination |
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hypnagogic hypnopompic formication
when pt is waking up |
hypnopompic hallucination |
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hypnagogic hypnopompic formication
feeling of bugs crawling on or under skin - seen with cocainsism |
formication hallucination |
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reduced emotional responsivnev(anhedionia) and overly active and inappropriate emotions are most common |
Schizophrenia |
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bodily signs and symptoms major component |
somatoform |
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poorly understood mind body interactions |
somatoform |
