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Question 1

what are the symptoms of depression for the elderly
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Answer 1

1 ability to pay attention, 2 difficulty processing info, 3 hardships making plans

Question 2

causes of depression in elderly

Answer 2

1 Vascular depression disease of the arteries, 2 learned helpness believer that nothing will change

Question 3

serotonin in depression

Answer 3

Low levels of serotonin = depression. medications raise it

Question 4

elders with anxiety get what

Answer 4

antidepressants selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors fewer side effects than benzodiazepines

Question 5

medications for alcohol abuse for elderly anti abuse no usage for elders

Answer 5

1 antabuse prescribed for impulsive people 2 naltrexone when you drink your brain releases dopamine lowers amount of dopomine

Question 6

2 main symptoms of schiophrenia

Answer 6

hallucinations seeing things that arent there hearing voices 2 delusion false beliefs

Question 7

medication for psychotic disorders

Answer 7

anti psychotic too much dopimine causes disorders, medications lowers levels of dopimine

Question 8

delirium Moap

Answer 8

disturbance in their ability to pay attention affects memory affects your orientation does not remember what day it is, impacts your perception

Question 9

deliriums have

Answer 9

sudden and quick onset causes are from medical condition infection taking drugs often have hallucinations and delusions

Question 10

Major neurological disorder. (cue) major logical issues AEFDL. daefl symptoms

Answer 10

symptoms have significant deficits in cognitve abilites, attention is reduced executive fucntion is reduced ability to make decions and use of language is down

Question 11

Major neurological disorder

Answer 11

stm memory is affected slow deterioration slow onset 75% is caused by alzheimer 25% by vascular dementia Cognitive enhancing medication slows down deterioration

Question 12

3 causes of alzheimer

Answer 12

1 plaques and tangles form between neurons & outside, neuron shrinks and deteriorates 2 beta amyloid proteins form in part of the brain that deals with consciousness hippocampus and cortex 3 low levels of acetylcholine, = alzheimer

Question 13

parkisons disease
can’t park my son’s car right

Answer 13

affects people’s motor function tremors or shakes they freeze can’t move arm or leg low levels of dopimine

Question 14

Cingulate gyrus

Answer 14

part of the limbic system that makes you feel uneasy or anxious until your mistake is corrected. mistake gets magnified