PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Circulation, Heart Failure
13 Dec 2017
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Congestive heart failure - condition in which heart is enlarged, pumping capacity is reduced, and person gets shortness of breath upon little exertion. Prevalence of heart attack: 1. 2 million americans suffer heart attack each year, Information provided on symptoms, medications and lifestyle changes. Tends to occur more slowly: hemorrhagic stoke is a ruptured blood vessel. Tends to occur rapidly and cause loss of consciousness. Biofeedback and physical therapy reduce disability: cognitive impairment may include deficits in language, learning, memory, and perception. Expressive aphasia (problems producing language: visual disorders are common with right brain stroke. Example: visual neglect which results from processing only part of visual field and can be treated by teaching patient to turn head to scan full visual field: emotional effects may depend on area of the brain damaged. Left hemisphere damage is related to depression. Right hemisphere damage is related to interpretation and expression of affect. 550,000 deaths and 1. 4 million new cases annually.
