PSYC 4321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Dsm-5, Sleep Deprivation, Head Injury

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4321
• Professor: Alex Snead

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Perspectives on neurocognitive disorders: most develop much later in life. Predominant feature is the impairment of cognitive abilities: memory, attention, perception, thinking: consequences i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude profou(cid:374)d (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior a(cid:374)d perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455, anxiety, depression, paranoia, agitation, aggression. Impaired consciousness and cognition during the course of several hours or days. Clinical description and statistics: appear confused, disoriented, and out of touch with surroundings, cannot focus and sustain attention, marked impairments in memory and language, develop over hours or days. Present in 20% of older adults admitted into ers: most prevalent among older adults, people undergoing medical procedures, cancer attends, and aids patients. Subsides relatively quickly: problems may occur on and off, some lapse into a coma and may die, causes linked to delirium: Intoxication by drugs and poisons: withdrawal from drugs (alcohol, sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics) Infections: head injury, brain trauma, sleep deprivation.