PSY 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cognitive Reserve, Healthy Diet, Globus Pallidus
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Disorders: neurodevelopmental disorders, adhd, primarily characterized (criteria) by: Inattention- persists into adulthood and beyond: easily distracted, difficulty concentration. Interferes with their daily functioning: hyperactivity and impulsivity, excessive levels of activity, decline with age, dms-5 must happened around 12years of age, subtypes: done by which criteria is the most prevalent. 2: mz: 82% and dz 38, genes may play a bigger role and the environment can be used to supplement treatment. It is poor performance that would be expected of that person (age or iq: she talked about iq specifically. It is common for them to have low iqs and very high iqs- savant: etiology, psychosocial, previously thought that cold parenting was a cause not. It could be that the pruning process is not occurring well. 6: facial agnosia, delusions, apathy, depression, agitation or aggression, later stages, cognitive functioning continues to decline, often they will need total support for daily functioning.
