HMB440H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Primitive Reflexes, Demand Characteristics
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Lecture 2. 1: research and theory to direct care of patients with dementia. Cognitive changes (memory, language, and communication, sensation, etc. ) other changes include emotional and personality; primitive reflexes. In addition, cognitive impairments may occur on a continuum (mild, moderate, severe) Cortex and forebrain are related to thinking, while mid brain is emotional and lower brain is instinctual. In ad as the thinking brain becomes more impaired - revert to emotional brain and the instinctual brain becomes more prominent. Neglect of social component of dementing illness, therefore, reliance on the biomedical model to explain the experience of dementing illness overlook the social construction of dementia and the impact of treatment contexts and caregiving relationships on disease. Most research is focused on the troublesome or challenging behavior problems attributed to disease progression. Since behaviors result from changes in the brain and, therefore, must be treated with medical/clinical interventions (e. g. neuroleptics, mechanical restraints, controlling disruptive behaviors)
