PSYCHIATRY 2

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OUTLINE ● Strategies regarding how to understand or reconcile multiple

pathologies in the clinic are needed, although they lag behind
I. General Layout B. Lists, Bullets, and
Numbering
II. Header and Footer DEFINITION
C. Nice-to-Know Information DELIRIUM
A. Header
● Marked by short-term confusion and changes in cognition
V. Tables, Figures, and
→ Occurs in hours to days
B. Footer
Appendix
● Can happen to anyone, regardless of age
III. Main Heading
A. Figures ● There are four subcategories based on several causes:
A. Subheading → General medical condition (ex. infection)
B. Tables → Substance-induced (ex. cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine
B. Subheading Font and [PCP])
Sub-subheading VI. Review Questions → Multiple causes (ex. head trauma and kidney disease)
→ Other or multiple etiologies (ex. sleep deprivation, mediation)
IV. Content Formatting VII. Citation

A. General Formatting
VIII. References
DEMENTIA
● Marked by severe impairment in memory, judgment, orientation,
and cognition
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● The subcategories are:
→ Alzheimer's type, which usually occurs in persons older than
INTRODUCTION 65 years of age and is manifested by progressive intellectual
disorientation and dementia, delusions, or depression
● Cognition includes the following:
→ Memory, Language, Orientation, Judgement, conducting → Vascular dementia, caused by vessel thrombosis or
hemorrhage (ex. after a stroke)
interpersonal relationships, Performing actions (praxis),
Problem solving → Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease
● Cognitive disorders reflect disruption in one or more of these → Head trauma
domains and are frequently complicated by behavioral → Pick's disease or frontotemporal lobar degeneration
symptoms → Prion disease such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is
● Cognitive disorders exemplify the complex interface among caused by a slow-growing transmittable virus
neurology, medicine, and psychiatry in that medical or AMNESTIC DISORDER
neurological conditions often lead to cognitive disorders that, in
● Major neurocognitive disorders caused by other medical
turn, are associated with behavioral symptoms
conditions
● It can be argued that of all psychiatric conditions, cognitive
● They are marked primarily by memory impairment in addition to
disorders best demonstrate how biological insults result in
other cognitive symptoms
behavioral symptomatology
● They may be caused by:
● The clinician must carefully assess the history and context of
the presentation of these disorders before arriving at a → Medical conditions (ex. hypoxia)
diagnosis and treatment plan → Toxins or medications (ex. marijuana, diazepam)
● The most common neuropathologic presentation associated → Unknown causes
with dementia reveal mixtures of Alzheimer's disease, vascular,
and Lewy body pathologies
NEUROPSYCHIATRIC MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATIONS
● Pure syndromes are relatively less common, although often the
dementia is ascribed to one of the coexisting pathologies

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