Types
A disorder that occurs when brain dysfunction affects thinking processes, memory, conciseness, or perception
What is a Neurocognitive Disorder?
Physical, occupational, speech, and language therapy help individuals relearn skills or compensate for lost abilities
What is rehabilitation Servises?
A physical wound, or Internal Injurie to the Brain
What is Traumatic Brain Injurie?
Neurochemical changes and Structural brain changes
What are Biological Changes?
dementia involving memory loss and other declines in cognitive and adaptive functioning
what is Alzheimer’s disease
A condition with symptoms involving deterioration in cognitive and independent functioning
What is Dementia?
The use of medications to help prevent, control, or reduce the symptoms of neurocognitive disorders
What are Biological Treatments?
Results from Oxygen Deprivation or other factors associated with intoxication
What is Substance Abuse?
defined as having Resilience, or Optimism vs. pessimism or, Depression, or Anxiety
What is Psychological Demension?
a condition involving significant decline in independent living skills, and in one or more areas of cognitive functioning
What is Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
Treatments often target smoking cessation, weight reduction, and blood sugar, cholesterol, or blood pressure control
What are Lifestyle Changes?
What is a Hemorrhagic stroke?
defined as Societal stressors, Access to health care or Ageism/attitudes towards aging
What is the Sociocultural Dimension?
a condition involving a modest decline in at least one major cognitive area
What is Mild Neurocognitive Disorder?
Modifying the environment can increase safety and comfort while decreasing confusion and agitation
What is Environmental Support?
The Declining brain functioning due to progressive loss of brain structure, neurochemical abnormalities, or the death of neurons
What is Neurodegeneration?
Defined as Social support, Social stigma, or Lifestyle
What is the Social Dimension?
An acute states of confusion involving diminished awareness, disorientation and impaired attentional skills
What is Delirium?
These techniques can also reduce the frequency or severity of problem behaviors associated with neurocognitive disorders such as aggression or socially inappropriate conduct.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment?
A stroke due to reduced blood supply caused by a clot or severe narrowing of the arteries supplying blood to the brain
what is Ischemic Stroke?