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34 Cards in this Set
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What is the function of the Frontal lobe motor complex?
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Speech formation
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What function is the perietal lobe responsible for?
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Processes sensory data
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
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Perception
Long term memory |
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What is the Acromym for Mental Status Examination, and what does it mean?
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A- appearance
C- cognitive abilities E- emotional stablility S- speech and language |
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When is the mental status assessed?
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It begins when you intially see the pt, and throughout the whole visit.
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What are you looking for in the appearance of the Patient for "A"
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Grooming
Emotional Status Body Language |
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What are some things youl look for in Grooming?
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Poor Hygiene
Lack of Concern Inappropriate Appearance |
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The outward observable manifestation of a person’s expressed feelings or emotions
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Affect
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A pervasive and sustained emotion that, when extreme, can color one’s whole view of life
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Mood-is generally used to refer to either elation or depression
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Loss of voice
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Aphonia
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Defective speech due to lack of phonation and resulting in whispering
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Hypophonia
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Any impairment of voice; a difficulty in speaking – volume, quality, pitch
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Dysphonia
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Defect or loss of power of expression by speech, writing or signs, or of comprehending spoken or written language, due to injury or disease of the brain
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Aphasia
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Impairment of speech, consisting in lack of coordination and failure to arrange words in their proper order, due to a central lesion
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Dysphasia
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Unconscious filling in of gaps in memory with fabricated facts and experiences
Commonly seen in organic amnesic syndromes It differs from lying in that the patient has no intention to deceive and believes the fabricated memories to be real |
Confabulation
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A newly coined word; in psychiatry, a new word whose meaning may be known only to the person using it and may be related to his conflicts
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Neologism
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The unpleasant emotional state consisting of psycho-physiological responses to anticipation of unreal or imagined danger, ostensibly resulting from unrecognized intrapsychic conflict
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Anxiety- can be mistaken for cardiac emergency
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A persistent, irrational, intense fear of a specific object, activity, or situation
Fear that is recognized as being excessive or unreasonable by the individual himself significant source of distress or interferes with social functioning, it is considered a mental disorder: phobic disorder (or neurosis) |
Phobia
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Recurrent, persistent thought, image, or impulse that is unwanted and distressing (egodystonic) and comes involuntarily to mind despite attempts to ignore or suppress it
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Obsession-involve thoughts of violence, contamination, and self-doubt
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A persistent and irresistible impulse to perform an irrational or apparently useless act
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Compulsion-hand-washing, touching, counting, and checking, that is engaged in for an unknown or unconscious purpose
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A fixed false belief that is firmly maintained in spite of incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary and in spite of the fact that other members of the culture not share the belief
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Delusions
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A sense perception without a source in the external world
A perception of an external stimulus object in the absence of such an object |
Hallucination
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Disturbed orientation in regard to time, place or person
Sometimes accompanied by disordered consciousness |
Confusion
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Drowsy, falls asleep quickly, but when aroused responds appropriately
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Lethargy
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An acute, reversible organic mental syndrome characterized by:
Reduced ability to maintain attention to external stimuli Disorganized thinking as manifested by rambling, irrelevant, or incoherent speech Also called “acute confusional state” |
Delirium
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A lowered level of consciousness manifested by the subject’s responding only to vigorous stimulation
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Stupor
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A state of unconsciousness from which the patient cannot be aroused, even by powerful stimulation
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Coma
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Memory that is lost within a brief period (from a few seconds to a maximum of about 30 minutes) unless reinforced
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Short-term memory
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A memory serviceable for events long past, but not able to acquire new recollections
Also called anterograde memory |
Long-term memory
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Lack or loss of memory
Inability to remember past experiences |
Amnesia
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Inability to recall events that occurred before the actual onset of amnesia
Loss of memories of past events |
Retrograde Amnesia
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Impairment of memory for events occurring after the onset of amnesia
Inability to form new memories |
Anterograde Amnesia
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Loss of ability to carry out familiar, purposeful movements in the absence of paralysis or other motor/sensory impairment
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Apraxia
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Loss of the power to recognize the import of sensory stimuli
Auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile |
Agnosia
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