Dementia: Diagnosis and Treatment
... Dementia Summary • Dementia is common and commonly overlooked • Alzheimer disease is by far the most common type • Current medications for dementia have modest benefits but should be offered if appropriate • Feeding issues in advanced dementia are not usually solved with feeding tubes • Antipsychot ...
... Dementia Summary • Dementia is common and commonly overlooked • Alzheimer disease is by far the most common type • Current medications for dementia have modest benefits but should be offered if appropriate • Feeding issues in advanced dementia are not usually solved with feeding tubes • Antipsychot ...
Organic mental disorders
... crystal clear. Then I feel as if I'm here but not here, kind of like being in a dream. It's as if I've lived through this exact moment many times before. I hear what people say, but they don't make sense. I know not to talk during the episode, since I just say foolish things. Sometimes I think I'm t ...
... crystal clear. Then I feel as if I'm here but not here, kind of like being in a dream. It's as if I've lived through this exact moment many times before. I hear what people say, but they don't make sense. I know not to talk during the episode, since I just say foolish things. Sometimes I think I'm t ...
Mental health and nursing home residents
... – Place: Where they are or what kind of facility they are in ...
... – Place: Where they are or what kind of facility they are in ...
Aging Well
... Loss of contact with reality usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) Seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling things that are not there (hallucinations) Also part of a number of psychiatric disorders, bipolar, delusional, depression, schizophrenia ...
... Loss of contact with reality usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) Seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling things that are not there (hallucinations) Also part of a number of psychiatric disorders, bipolar, delusional, depression, schizophrenia ...
In Brief Issue 7 - Alzheimer`s Association
... disease, Huntington’s, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and normal pressure hydrocephalus are just a few of the ALZHEIMER’S dementias that appear less frequently. ...
... disease, Huntington’s, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and normal pressure hydrocephalus are just a few of the ALZHEIMER’S dementias that appear less frequently. ...
Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders
... differences in some disorders like depression is higher in women than men. Drug abuse and alcoholism is higher in men. 3. Some diseases are contracted early on in life. Depression and antisocial behavior (25-44 years) and cognitive impairment around 65 years of age. ...
... differences in some disorders like depression is higher in women than men. Drug abuse and alcoholism is higher in men. 3. Some diseases are contracted early on in life. Depression and antisocial behavior (25-44 years) and cognitive impairment around 65 years of age. ...
Sid Williams - Dementia Concepts
... communicating and such but now does he have dementia?’ ‘A dementing process’ ...
... communicating and such but now does he have dementia?’ ‘A dementing process’ ...
47.272 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Fall 2014 Quiz 5 For each
... 1. Which of the following is/are good (a) example(s) of why most psychologists reject the Cartesian dichotomy and instead believe that mind and body are closely connected? a. the ease with which people can fake a medical illness b. the placebo effect c. how hypnosis can be used to induce unusual bod ...
... 1. Which of the following is/are good (a) example(s) of why most psychologists reject the Cartesian dichotomy and instead believe that mind and body are closely connected? a. the ease with which people can fake a medical illness b. the placebo effect c. how hypnosis can be used to induce unusual bod ...
Peer-reviewed Article PDF - e
... Galen is believed to have adopted Hippocrates’ idea that there were four essential bodily humors that were related to the four elements of antiquity, the four seasons of the year, and the four ages of man. Humoral balance brought about health and disease was a result of imbalance. The humors were de ...
... Galen is believed to have adopted Hippocrates’ idea that there were four essential bodily humors that were related to the four elements of antiquity, the four seasons of the year, and the four ages of man. Humoral balance brought about health and disease was a result of imbalance. The humors were de ...
Dementia praecox
Dementia praecox (a ""premature dementia"" or ""precocious madness"") is a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood. The term was first used in 1891 by Arnold Pick (1851–1924), a professor of psychiatry at Charles University in Prague. His brief clinical report described the case of a person with a psychotic disorder resembling hebephrenia. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) popularised it in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that eventually became a different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia. Kraepelin reduced the complex psychiatric taxonomies of the nineteenth century by dividing them into two classes: manic-depressive psychosis and dementia praecox. This division, commonly referred to as the Kraepelinian dichotomy, had a fundamental impact on twentieth-century psychiatry, though it has also been questioned.The primary disturbance in dementia praecox is a disruption in cognitive or mental functioning in attention, memory, and goal-directed behaviour. Kraepelin contrasted this with manic-depressive psychosis, now termed bipolar disorder, and also with other forms of mood disorder, including major depressive disorder. He eventually concluded that it was not possible to distinguish his categories on the basis of cross-sectional symptoms.Kraepelin viewed dementia praecox as a progressively deteriorating disease from which no one recovered. However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that while there may be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s. Still, he regarded it as a specific disease concept that implied incurable, inexplicable madness.