Neurocognitive

Self-Care Paper: Insufficient Sleep The nursing profession is an integral component of the healthcare industry. Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health; it is the prevention of illness and injury, and facilitation of healing and alleviation of suffering (American Nursing Association, 2016). Nurses are a vital element to humanity’s health, but with this significance yields a complex and challenging profession. Nurses are subjected to a particularly high risk of…

Introduction Development can be described as growth or change over time. Child development is a field that studies how biological predispositions, environment, and other factors affect children over the lifespan. A child 's development is often thought to begin at birth; however, while the child is still in the womb, there are months of development occurring. Parents are the primary influences over the life of a child and subsequently impact the child 's development. Moreover, events or…

Conduct Disorder (CD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) are two types of childhood disruptive behaviour disorders characterised by anti-social behaviour due to the impulsive and aggressive nature of their symptoms. There exists a sub population known as Callous Unemotional (CU) who display an increased severity of symptoms in particular a lack of guilt, empathy and emotion that have been found to lead to an increased severity and persistence of anti-social behaviour (Chabrol, Valls,…

in their study, which also used ImPACT testing on student athletes. This study wanted to investigate the post-exertion neurocognitive performance of high school athletes who were recovering from concussions. The researchers grouped the student athletes based on their RCI, which stands for the reliable change index and shows whether there is a decline in the athlete’s neurocognitive performance. Mcgrath et al. then conducted ImPACT testing and the results revealed that there was not a significant…

Hepatitis virus C (HCV) is an enveloped positive-strand RNA virus widely distributed in the world, once nearly 200 million people are contaminated with the pathogen. The HCV virus is responsible for developing a chronic infection in the patient, leading to different degrees of liver disease and it is also able to cause systemic syndromes, even causing damages in the central nervous system (CNS). Signals and symptoms include fatigue, tiredness, impaired memory (“brain fog”), and they can even…

The ability to hear is important to the elderly population as it improves their quality of life and preserves their well-being and safety. For instance, the ability to clearly hear allows for individuals to detect sounds from behind, awareness of your surrounding, communication with family members and others to maintain a link to the world. Nevertheless, presbycusis is an ever-growing condition in the geriatric population. Presbycusis or age related hearing loss is a multifaceted and complicated…

of the disease, the medications that are prescribed to help with cognitive impairment from the disease, as well as what researchers have found as a possible cure for Alzheimer 's. Alzheimer’s disease is classified in the DSM-V as a neurocognitive disorder. Neurocognitive disorders (NCD) are “those in which impaired cognition has not been present at birth or very early life, and thus represents a decline from a previously attained level of functioning” (American Psychiatric Association).…

Cholinesterase inhibitors do not reverse the memory loss of dementia. 5. What is dementia? Dementia is a catch-all term for any disease or lesion affecting the brain that causes a decline in cognitive functioning. The medical term for dementia is neurocognitive disorder. Types of dementia include Alzheimer’s Disease, vascular dementia, dementia due to stroke, dementia due to HIV infection, dementia due to substance abuse, and dementia due to a number of neurological disorders. Dementia is much…

The observation assessment that was performed on C.W. was the Comprehensive Occupational Therapy Evaluation (COTE). The COTE is a criterion referenced measure that allows therapists to identify certain client factors and performance skills that may influence occupational performances and guide intervention planning (Allison & Shotwell, in press). According to Allison and Shotwell (in press), the COTE is a rating scale that provides therapists with a quick overview or “snapshot” of a “client’s…

Précis Chapter In the chapter Redesigning the Brain, of Norman Doidge’s book The Brain that Changes Itself (2007), the author delves into the history of brain mapping, as well as asserting the ever changing nature of the brain. To do so, Doidge refers to Michael Merzenich’s research defying the status quo of the time, implying that the brain is not hardwired but rather constantly adapting. Doidge’s goal in this chapter is too not only divulge how far we’ve come in terms of understanding the…