PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Temporal Lobe, Circumlocution, Block Design
4 Mar 2016
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Many disorders are defined by symptoms, cognitive test (measure strengths and weaknesses tells us what ways to respond to treatment) D: gradual deterioration of the cognitive abilities that worsen overtime that is hard to diagnose at first, you have to determine the person gets worse overtime. There is no treatment to increase memory consolidation but there is treatment to slow it down. Step wise deterioration: deterioration happens step-by-step, patient becomes functional at a level and gets dramatically worse. Slowly progressive: is more linear and you constantly see score getting worse overtime. It is possible to have more than one condition and co-morbidity occurring* Impairment causes a disability in a patients social and occupational functioning (65+ years of age, cog. test will tell you whether someone has the ability to remember, disability in occupational functioning means they are no longer living independently) Clinical diagnosis nothing definite about it but there are disorders you can identify that have a genetic inheritance (ex.
