PSY BEH 101D Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Deep Brain Stimulation, Neurofibrillary Tangle
28 Oct 2016
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Prevention: timely immunization, avoid accidents (leading cause for children) Close monitoring of infant exploration: lack cognitive skills, impulse control. Poverty: malnutrition, no source of healthcare, poor resistance to diseases. Social contexts (families, peer, schools, neighborhoods, cultures) influence health. Parents and older siblings serve as models: parental caring and monitoring reduces risk taking. Engage in more health-compromising behaviors, chronic health problems, have a mental health disorder, and obesity. Chronic disorders: slow onset, long duration, men have higher incidence of fatal chronic conditions, while women have higher incidence of nonfatal ones, older adults: arthritis most common, osteoporosis: extensive loss of bone tissue. Dementia: deterioration of mental functioning: lose ability to care for themselves, unable to recognize familiar surroundings and people, alzheimer disease: Progressive, irreversible brain disorder characterized by gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and eventually physical function. Women more likely to develop because they live longer. Deficiency of brain messenger chemical acetylcholine (memory)
