PSYC 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dsm-5, Dura Mater, Cognitive Disorder
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Introduction: clinicians always need to be alert to the possibility that brain impairment itself may be directly responsible for their patients" symptoms. It is also the only organ capable of studying & reading about itself. First, as their inclusion in the dsm indicates, these disorders are regarded as psychopathological conditions. Fourth, many people who suffer from brain disorders react to the news of their diagnosis w/ depression or anxiety. Prospective studies also suggest that depressive symptoms may herald the onset of disorders such as. Alzheimer"s disease by several years & that episodes of depression can double the risk for. In dsm-5, the disorders that used to be known as delirium, dementia, & amnestic & other. Cognitive disorders are now grouped into a new diagnostic category called neurocognitive. Disorders : this term is more straightforward than its predecessor, disorders in this category are those that involve a loss of previously attained cognitive ability &
