PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vascular Dementia, Substantia Nigra, Tangled
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Disorders these groups of disorders are not difficult to diagnose but they are difficult to differentiate from each other they mostly involve a cognitive decline and an affective liability: can"t think properly and emotions are up and down. As you get older, the mind and body slow down. Deviating from a conscious state late adulthood = 60+ the two main types of disorder past the age of 60: clouded state of consciousness. Usually considered a temporary state of compromise. Place don"t know where they are, where they live, where they were born. People with dementia get lost easily, poor judgement (frontal lobe) Decay in frontal functioning as one gets older, the brake-line in the brain is starting to decay - people will say and do things that a normal person wouldn"t get away with. Ability to deal with abstract ideas diminishes: as the world changes, they can"t adapt to changes there are disturbances in emotion, vague patterns of speech.
