PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Polypharmacy, Cardiovascular Disease, Mental Disorder
24 Jan 2020
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In contrast, when we perceive our time as limited our goals become focused on short term and emotionally meaningful matters. Another diagnostic issue is that depression and early onset neurocognitive disorders are very difficult to distinguish from one another because both have prominent mood and memory problems. Sleep disturbances often appear as a result of medical problems: age related changes in sleep: Psychopathology 35 a) changes in eeg activity; stage 2 eeg activity is less synchronous than in young adults. Insomnia; norturnal symptoms include difficulty falling asleep, frequent awakenings, shortened sleep and non-restorative sleep. Daytime symptoms include fatigue, sleepiness, depression, and anxiety. The dsm-5 requires symptoms to be frequent, persistent, distressed and not explained by lack of opportunity to sleep or other mental or physical health problems. Various possible contributing factors of insomnia: physical disorders, substances, circadian rhythm problems, psychological factors, and poor sleep environment or habits. Sleep apnea; episodes of cessation of breathing that last at least 10 seconds.
