NUR 2459 Mental Health Exam 2 Module 4-6 Complete Questions And Answers Includes disorders in which a clinically deficit in cognition or memory exists causing a change from a previous level of functioning. ✅ Neurocognitive Disorders (NCDs) Is characterized by a disturbance in attention and awareness and change in cognition that develops rapidly over a short period. ✅ Delirium A mental disorder involving functional decline in multiple cognitive areas, including memory along with behavioral and psychological symptoms. Classified based on the areas they affect in the brain. ✅ Dementia A progressive and irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language, and, finally, physical functioning ✅ Alzheimers Disease Creating imaginary events to fill in memory gaps ✅ Confabulation Persistent repetition of the same word or idea in response to different questions ✅ Preservation loss of ability to express thoughts in writing ✅ Agraphia Inability to communicate through speech, writing, or signs. ✅ Aphasia inability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function or inability to use objects properly. ✅ Apraxia the inability to recognize familiar objects. ✅ Agnosia Inability to recognize familiar sounds ✅ Auditory Agonsia The tendency to taste, chew and put everything in the mouth ✅ Hyperorality The urge to touch everything ✅ Hypermetamorphesis The tendency for the mood to deteriorate and agitation to increase in the later part of the day or night. ✅ Sundowning Complex diseases of the brain characterized by craving, seeking and use regardless of the price they may pay. Continuous use usually changes brain structure and function. ✅ Substance Use Disorders A compulsive or chronic requirement. The need is so strong as to generate distress (either physical or psychological) if left unfulfilled.The individual who is addicted is consistently unable to abstain and also unable to recognize the extent to which the addiction is creating problems in functioning, interpersonal relationships and emotional responses ✅ Addiction A state of disturbance in cognition, perception, behavior, level of consciousness, judgment, and other functions that is directly attributable to the effects of a psychoactive drug. It may be marked by a physical and mental state of exhilaration and emotio nal frenzy or lethargy and stupor. ✅ Intoxication occurs upon reduction or discontinuation of a substance that has been used regularly over a prolonged period. ✅ Withdrawal A progressive decrease in a person's responsiveness to a drug. Causes person to want more of a drug or substance to achieve pleasurable effects . ✅ Tolerance A feeling of great happiness or well -being ✅ Euphoria Involuntary rapid eye movements with substance use disorders ✅ Nystagmus pin point pupils ✅ Meiosis runny nose ✅ Rhinorrhea dilated pupils ✅ Mydriasis Too much of a drug can cause this. Death usually stems from respiratory arrest due to respiratory depressant effect of the drug. Three symptoms are strongly suggestive of overdose: respiratory depression, pinpoint pupils and coma. ✅ Overdose A drug abuse treatment program that involves gradual but complete withdrawal from an abused substance ✅ Detoxification Program sluggish mood ✅ Lethargic Changing mood rapidly and often ✅ Labile A severe and chronic mental disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, perception and behavior ✅ Schizophrenia A severe mental condition in which there is disorganization of the personality, deterioration in social functioning, and loss of contact with, or distortion of, reality. There may be evidence of hallucinations and delusional thinking ✅ Psychosis
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