Types of Dementia
Medications
Medications
Diagnoses-1
Diagnoses-2
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Difficulty remembering names and recent events is often an early clinical symptom; apathy and depression are also often early symptoms
What is Alzheimer's Diease
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This medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders. It belongs to a class of medications called benzodiazepines which act on the brain and nerves (central nervous system) to produce a calming effect.
What is Anxiety
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This drug is used to treat anxiety, alcohol withdrawal, and seizures. It is also used to relieve muscle spasms and to provide sedation before medical procedures.
What is Diazepam
100
As a mandatory reporter of elder abuse, which must be present before a nurse should notify the authorities
What is suspicion of elder abuse and/or neglect
100
During an interview, the nurse notes that the patient gets up several times to wash her hands even though they are not dirty. This behavior is an example of:
What is Compulsive disorder
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Impaired judgment or ability to plan steps needed to complete a task is more likely to be the initial symptom, as opposed to the memory loss often associated with the initial symptoms of Alzheimer's.
What is Vascular Dementia
200
This drug may also be used to reduce the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, to prevent nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, and for trouble sleeping (insomnia).
What is Lorazepam
200
This medication is used along with counseling and support to treat alcoholism. It works by blocking the processing of alcohol in the body. This causes you to have a bad reaction when you drink alcohol.
What is Disulfiram
200
a deeply ingrained and maladaptive pattern of behavior of a specified kind, typically manifest by the time one reaches adolescence and causing long-term difficulties in personal relationships or in functioning in society.
What is Personality Disorders
200
Fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people.
What is social phobia
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People have memory loss and thinking problems common in Alzheimer's, but are more likely than people with Alzheimer's to have initial or early symptoms such as sleep disturbances, well-formed visual hallucinations, and slowness, gait imbalance or other parkinsonian movement features.
What is DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES
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This drug is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders). This medicine helps patients think more clearly, feel less nervous, and take part in everyday life.
What is Haloperidol
300
This medication is used to prevent and control seizures. This medication is known as an anticonvulsant or antiepileptic drug. It is also used to treat panic attacks. This works by calming your brain and nerves. It belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines.
What is Clonazepam
300
This diease affects three areas of the brain:language, memory and decision-making. It progresses and becomes severe.
What is Dementia
300
This disorder involves anticipating disaster, often worrying excessively about health, money, family, or work.
What is Generalized Aniexty Disorder
400
A type of brain disorder that’s caused by a lack of vitamin B-1, leading to bleeding in the lower sections of the brain.
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
400
This medications classification is one of the SSI used to treat a variety of conditions, including depression and other mental/mood disorders. These medications can help prevent suicidal thoughts.
What is Sertraline
400
This medication is used to treat anxiety and acute alcohol withdrawal.
What is Librium
400
The diagnosis is made when the patient has features of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder—either bipolar disorder or depression—but does not strictly meet diagnostic criteria for either alone
What is Schizo-effective disorder
400
a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
500
Early signs of this type of dementia are problems with reasoning and judgment. For example, a person with this disease may have trouble understanding visual information or remembering how to do simple daily tasks
What is Parkinson’s disease
500
This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood disorders (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, irritability associated with autistic disorder). This medication can help you to think clearly and take part in everyday life. The class of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain.
What is Risperidone
500
This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder). This medication can help to decrease hallucinations. This medication belongs to a class of drugs called atypical antipsychotics. It works by helping to restore the balance of certain natural substances in the brain.
What is Olanzapine
500
a mental disorder marked by alternating periods of elation and depression.
What is Bipolar
500
any of a range of behavioral disorders occurring primarily in children, including such symptoms as poor concentration, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
What is Attention -Deficit Disorder
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