Unit 1 Depression, Delirium, Depession Flashcards
Dementia
Characterized by several cognitive deficits, memory in particular, and tends to be chronic.
Depression
Is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel. A morbid sadness, dejection, or melancholy, a stage in the acceptance of death.
Delirium
(Acute Confusion) is a medical emergency that if left untreated can result in death. It is characterized by change in overall cognition and level of consciousness over a short time. A serious disturbance in mental abilities.
Aphasia
Trouble expressing oneself by communication. It affects your ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal or written. Occurs after stroke or head injury.
Apraxia
Inability or difficulty to execute a voluntary motor movement.
Agnosia
The loss to the ability to recognize objects, faces, voices or places. Disorder involving one or more of the senses.
Anosognosia
A deficit of self-awareness, no knowledge of illness
Amnesia
Loss of memory, some have difficulty forming new memories
Altered Perception
The individual suffers loss of depth perception, inability to interpret sensory information.
Apathy
The individual is unable to, or lacks interest in beginning activities, or stay involved in a conversation or task.
Axon
The long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducted from the cell body to other cells.
Dendrities
Branched protoplasm is extensions of a nerve cell that propagate electrochemical stimulation received from other cells of the body.
Synapse
A junction between two nerve cells where impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
Neurotransmitter
A chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse, by diffusing across the synapse or junction causing the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber.
Geriatrics
Medical term-deals with the physical and psychological aspects of aging and the diagnosis and treatment of the disease affecting the older adult.
