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Three Primary categories of cognitive disorders
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1. Delirium
2. Dementia 3. Amnestic |
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A syndrome that involves a disturbance of consciousness accompanied by a change in cognition
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Delirium
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A mental disorder involving multiple cognitive deficits, primarily memory impairment and at least one of the following cognitive disorders; aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or disturbance in executive motor function
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Dementia
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The deterioration of motor function
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Aphasia
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Apraxia
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Impaired ability to execute motor functions despite intact motor abilities
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Three Primary categories of cognitive disorders
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1. Delirium
2. Dementia 3. Amnestic |
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A syndrome that involves a disturbance of consciousness accompanied by a change in cognition
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Delirium
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A mental disorder involving multiple cognitive deficits, primarily memory impairment and at least one of the following cognitive disorders; aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, or disturbance in executive motor function
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Dementia
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The deterioration of motor function
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Aphasia
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Impaired ability to execute motor functions despite intact motor abilities
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Apraxia
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Inability to recognize or name objects despite intact sensory abilities
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Agnosia
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Inability to think abstractly and to plan, initiate, sequence, monitor, and stop complex behavior
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Disturbance in executive motor function
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Echoing what is heard
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Echolalia
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Repeating words or sounds over and over
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Palilalia
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Difficulty finding words, frequently losing objects and beginning to experience anxiety about these losses indicate ______ dementia
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Mild
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Confusion with progressive memory loss, no longer able to complete complex tasks, but still oriented to person and place indicates someone with _______ Dementa
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Moderate
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Personality and emotional change, possibly delusional, night time wondering, requiring assistance in ADL's is indicative of someone with _______ dementia
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Severe
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A progressive brain disorder with a gradual onset that causes increasing decline in function, including loss of speech, motor function and profound personality and behavioral changes
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Alzheimer's Disease
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Abrupt onset with rapid changes in function followed by periods of plateaus in a series. CT or MRI show multiple lesions of the cerebral cortex and subcortical structures
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Vascular Dementia
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A degenerative brain disease that particularly affects the frontal and temporal lobes. Early signs include personality change, loss of social skills and inhibitions, emotional blunting, language abnormalities. Common onset between 50 and 60 years with death occurring in 2 to 5 years
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Picks disease
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A central nervous systemd disorder, typically developing between 40 and 60 years of age. Altered vision, loss of coordination, abnormal movements with rapidly progressing dementia
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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A slowly progressive neurological condition characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. Dementia affects 20 to 60% of people with this diagnosis
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Parkinson's Disease
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An inherited, dominant gene disease primarily involving cerebral atrophy, demyelination, and enlargement of brain ventricles. Initially choreiform movements that are continuous during waking hours. Personality changes followed by memory loss, decreased mental functioning and other signs of dementa. Begins in late 30's to early 40's and may last 10 to 20 years before death
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Huntington's Disease
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Characterized by a disturbance in memory that results directly from the physiological effects of a general medical condition or the persisting effects of a substance such as alcohol or other drugs. Sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning and represents a significant decline from previous function
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Anmestic disorders
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