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Assignment:
Define the following glossary terms
- Amnesia
- Amyloid
- Anxiolytic
- Aphonia
- Catatonic posturing
- Continuous positive airway pressure
- Hallucination
- Hyperesthesia
- Mutism
- Paresthesia
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Prodromal
- Pseudo neurologic
- Psychosis
- Ventricular shift
Short answer for the following qusetions
1. Name the anxiety disorder that caused from an overwhelmingly painful external event
2. identify the progressive degenerative disease of the brain in which there is a typical profile in the loss of mental and physical functioning ( it is the most frequent cause of deterioration of intellectual capacity or dementia)
3. List some causes of mental illness
4. List the criteria for diagnosing intellectual development disorder?
5. What is the cure for intellectual developmental disorder?
6. Chronic anxiety that is inappropriate can develop into what type of disorder?
7. Dementia involves deterioration of which three functions?
8. Identify the disorder that is characterized by intense mood swings from manic to depressive.
9. Identify the drug of choice used during an acute manic phase of bipolar disease
10. When are most learning disorders in children first identified?
11. Identify a major factor that creates and maintains stuttering
12. List the five types of pervasive development disorders as identified in the autistic spectrum
13. List the three-subtype identified in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
14. Describe oppositional defiant disorder?
15. Name the medication used to treat Tourette's syndrome
16. What four symptoms are nearly always present when a child has autism?
17. List examples of simple motor tics?
18. List causes of dementia.
19. Explain hallucination.
20. List the four major groups of drugs that are often abused.
21. Describe bipolar disorder?
22. Describe major depressive disorder
23. List the phases of the grief process as identified by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
24. anxiety disorders include four specific anxiety disorders. List these disorders.
25. Identify the disorder in which the anxiety that a patient experience is converted to a physical or somatic symptom as a defense mechanism.
26. Name the associative subtypes of pain disorders.
27. Identify the type of preoccupation that a patient suffering from hypochondriasis experiences
28. A patient who is fully aware that he or she is not sick or ill but seeks medical attention anyway would be having symptoms of which condition?
29. Do somatoform disorders include a group of mental disorders in which physical symptoms have an organic cause?
30. Identify the test that is used to assess sleep disorders.
31. To be diagnosed with insomnia, how long must sleeplessness endure?
32. Identify the group of sleep disorders that includes sleepwalking, night terrors and nightmares.
33. At what blood alcohol level would a person exhibit the following effects: impairment in coordination, judgement, memory, and comprehension? (Hint: In some states the person would be considered legally drunk.)
34. Identify the phobia associated with a fear of blood.
35. Identify the phobia associated with a fear of disease.
36. A person with a narcissistic personality would demonstrate what type of behavior?
37. Which accepted reference offers guidelines for criteria to be used in the clinical setting when diagnosing a mental disorder?
38. What is involved in the treatment of vascular dementia?
39. What is the prognosis for the individual suffering from dementia caused by head trauma?
40. Describe learning disorders.