Psychiatric and Cognitive Disorders Flashcards
hypervigilance
excessive attention and alertness where the person is constantly assessing potential threats around them
Delirium
disorientation with confusion, lability, and disturbances in behavior
sundowner’s syndrome
- typically occurs in the late afternoon and night
- often seen with patients with dementia
- characteristics include drowiness, confusion, ataxia, falling, agitation and aggression
flat affect
nonexistent expression of emotion
procedural memory (implicit/non-declarative memory)
- Knowing how to perform a skill, retaining previously learned skills, and learning new skills.
- Ex. driving, playing sports, hand crafts, learning to use adaptive ADL equipment or a wheelchair.
declarative/explicit memory
Knowing that something was learned, verbal retrieval of a knowledge base
such as facts and remembering everyday events.
Ex. remembering places, names, and various words.
episodic memory
- Autobiographic memory for contextually specific and personal events.
- Ex. remembering the day’s events, what one had for breakfast, occurrences on the job, the content of therapy sessions.
semantic memory
- Knowledge of the general world, facts, linguistic skill, and vocabulary.
- Ex. remembering the dates of holidays, the name of the president, dates of world events.
Catatonia
immobility or rigidity
Akathisia
serious motor restlessness
Hallucinations
- false sensory perceptions
- where clients see, hear, smell, taste or even feel something that
isn’t there. Sensory based.
Delusions
ideas and beliefs that are strongly held in the mind and account for suspicious and guarded behavior
poverty of speech
limited speech
ex. one word answers to questions
expressive aphasia (Broca’s)
- person knows what they want to say, but cannot say it
receptive aphasia (Werincke’s)
- person can’t understand what’s being said to them
flight of ideas
- rapid shifts in thoughts from one idea to another
concrete thinking
inability to think abstractly
Important facts about schizophrenia
- evals should be top-down assessments of daily functioning and there should be an observation of their home environment
- if patient has tardive dyskinesia (abnormal body movements), let physician know immediately
schizophrenia: impact on occupational performance
- deficits in attention (sustained attention)
- good short term memeory but WORKING MEMORY is the concern
- deficits in executive functioning