GRN 250- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Gerontology
• Course: GRN 250
• Professor: John F Watkins

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Pathological change: dementia (age, symptoms and types, other neurodegenerative conditions, depressions (age, symptoms) Normative changes: weight loss (brain cell loss, deeper sulci, flattened gyri, enlarged ventricles, loss of myelin on axon, reduction in neurotransmitters/ neuroreceptors, accumulation of tangles and plaques. Intelligence: crystalized intelligence: information, skills, and strategies that people learn through experience, mostly vocabulary and knowledge, very related to experience and learning, fluid intelligence: the capacity to process novel information. Learning: process of acquiring knowledge and skills, learning declines with age (because, neu(cid:396)o(cid:374) loss a(cid:374)d , short term memory, reduced neuroplasticity, processing speed. Make something up, now its drilled in memory: short term, benign senescent forgetfulness, compensations, not pathological but normal. Types of dementias: o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)i(cid:272) dege(cid:374)e(cid:396)ati(cid:448)e de(cid:373)e(cid:374)tia (cid:894)alzhei(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s, f(cid:396)o(cid:374)to-temporal [picks], lewy body, pa(cid:396)ki(cid:374)so(cid:374)s"s(cid:895, vascular dementia (stroke) Infection-related dementia (high fevers, aids. , syphilis) (is reversible: drug-related dementia (antipsychotics, antidepressants, pain-anxiety meds) (meds smoothie)