Psych 1455 Part 1 Delirium, Dementia

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an inability to recognize familiar situations, people, or stimuli. Not related to impairment in sensory organs.

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Agnosia

Front 2

inability to read or write.

Back 2

agraphia

Front 3

inability to identify an object or its use by sight such as a toothbrush or telephone; visual agnosia

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alexia

Front 4

a loss of ability to understand or use language

Back 4

aphasia

Front 5

an inability to carry out skilled and purposeful movement; inability to use objects properly.

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apraxia

Front 6

inability to identify familiar objects when placed in hand, such as a comb or pencil; tactile agnosia

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astereogenosis

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inablility to recognize familiar sounds such as a ringing doorbell or telephone.

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auditory agnosia

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overreacton toward minor stresses that occurs in demented clients.

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catastrophic reaction

Front 9

filing in of memory gaps with imaginary information in an attempt to distract others from observing the deficit.

Back 9

confabulation

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an acute usually reversible brain disorder characterized by clouding of consciousness (decreased awareness of environment) and a reduced ability to focus and maintain attention, disorientation, memory impairment, impaired speech, altered sensory perception, problems with sleep/wake cycle, psychomotor changes, and/or emotional problems

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delirium

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a chronic, irreversible brain disorder characterized by impairments in memory, abstract thinking, and judgment, as well as changes in personality.

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dementia

Front 12

problem with articulation

Back 12

dysarthria

Front 13

impaired ability to write

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dysgraphia

Front 14

impaired ability to name an object

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dysnomia

Front 15

the cognitive ability to plan, sequence

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executive functioning

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need to compulsively touch and examine every object in environment

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hypermetamorphosis

Front 17

need to taste, chew, and examine any object small enought to be placed in mouth.

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hyperorality

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repetitive behaviors such as lip licking, finger tapping, pacing, or echolalia

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perseveration phenomena

Front 19

disorientation that worsens at the end of the day

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sundown syndrome

Front 20

A delirious pt may mistake polka dots on a pillow for spiders, this is an error in perception of sensory stimulus known as an ? (Think Magician)

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illusion

Front 21

When a pt sees, hears, tastes, smells or feels something for which no external stimulus exists -e.g. hearing voices when none are present is known as a ?

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hallucination