The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder version V, also simply called the DSM-5, is a manual of a written system intended to be used by physiatrists and doctors. The DSM-5 attempts to create categories that different mental disorders can be put in to and describes each disorder to allow the most accurate diagnosis possible. One disorder than can be found in the DSM-5 manual is Mild or Major Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Traumatic Brain Injury. For a brain injury to be considered traumatic, according to the DSM-5, it must present a minimum of one of four complications; consciousness lost, amnesia occurring post trauma, feelings of confusion or being disoriented, and lastly signs of neurological damage. When the brain shifts
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The decelerating of information processing in the brain along with difficulty of learning and remembering are symptoms of a neurocognitive disorder. This disorder may cause a problem with correctly reasoning in social situations. Apathy can be a new trait that this disorder puts upon a diagnosed person. These new problems found in different social situations may cause interpersonal relationships to become strained, promoting new or reoccurring feeling of depression or anxiety in the person with the neurocognitive disorder. Another possible feature of this disorder is physical disruptions in the forms of headaches, sleep disorders, or an increased tolerance to medicine. The severity of the traumatic brain injury ranges from mild, moderate, then severe. The DSM-5 provides a table entitled “Severity ratings for traumatic brain …show more content…
These particular participants had a substance abuse problem along with their neurocognitive disorders. Before this time there was no major study done on the impacts of substance abuse on the recovery time of this disorder. Though this study did shed more light on whether substance abuse hinders or possibly has no effect at on all how full a person may recover. Thirty participants partook in a six month long study that measured attention rates, recollection, reasoning, and the promptness of information processing. Before any medicines or supplements were administered to those being studied, the researchers first gathered information on the previously mentioned rates. After the rates were collected researchers administered a combination of different physical activities, to promote weight, gain along with or instead of supplements, promoting the improvement of neurocognitive disorders. At the conclusion of this study researchers were able to collect information that led them to determine that the correct intervention can improve the cognitive skills of a person suffering from a traumatic brain
The decelerating of information processing in the brain along with difficulty of learning and remembering are symptoms of a neurocognitive disorder. This disorder may cause a problem with correctly reasoning in social situations. Apathy can be a new trait that this disorder puts upon a diagnosed person. These new problems found in different social situations may cause interpersonal relationships to become strained, promoting new or reoccurring feeling of depression or anxiety in the person with the neurocognitive disorder. Another possible feature of this disorder is physical disruptions in the forms of headaches, sleep disorders, or an increased tolerance to medicine. The severity of the traumatic brain injury ranges from mild, moderate, then severe. The DSM-5 provides a table entitled “Severity ratings for traumatic brain …show more content…
These particular participants had a substance abuse problem along with their neurocognitive disorders. Before this time there was no major study done on the impacts of substance abuse on the recovery time of this disorder. Though this study did shed more light on whether substance abuse hinders or possibly has no effect at on all how full a person may recover. Thirty participants partook in a six month long study that measured attention rates, recollection, reasoning, and the promptness of information processing. Before any medicines or supplements were administered to those being studied, the researchers first gathered information on the previously mentioned rates. After the rates were collected researchers administered a combination of different physical activities, to promote weight, gain along with or instead of supplements, promoting the improvement of neurocognitive disorders. At the conclusion of this study researchers were able to collect information that led them to determine that the correct intervention can improve the cognitive skills of a person suffering from a traumatic brain