Symptoms of dystonia correct answer: Involuntary muscle contractions that cause repetitive twisting movements.
The condition can affect one part of the
... [Show More] body- focal dystonia; two or more adjacent parts- segmental; or all parts- general dystonia.
Cervical dystonia- cause head to twist and turn to one side.
Eyelids- rapid blinking or involuntary spasms
Jaw/tongue- slurred speech, drooling, difficulty chewing
Hand/Forearm- repetitive activity (writers or musicians dystonia)
Symptoms of aprosodia correct answer: Neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody (ranges of rhythm, pitch, stress, intonation).
Differentiate between short term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is what length of period? correct answer: 30 seconds to several days
What is an illusion? correct answer: Distortions of real images or sensations. Can occur in schizophrenia patients during active phases but can also occur during the prodromal phases and during periods of remissions.
What is an hallucination? correct answer: Any of the five senses may be affected. The most common are auditory with voices that are often threatening, obscene, accusatory, or insulting. Two or more voices may converse among themselves or a voice may comment on the patient's life or behavior. Visual are common but tactile olfactory and gustatory are unusual (their presence should prompt clinician to consider underlying medical or neurological disorder).
What is a delusion? correct answer: May assume persecutory, grandiose, religious, or somatic forms--fixed beliefs that do not change.
How is competency determined? correct answer: Decisional Capacity; ability to communicate a choice/ability to understand information necessary for the specific decision at hand/ ability to appreciate the implications and significance of the provided information or the choice of being made/ ability to reason by weighting the comparing options as well as consequences of the potential decision.
Why is an MRI an appropriate study for a dementia diagnosis? correct answer: Differentiates between dementia of Alzheimer's type and vascular dementia.
What is the minimum duration of symptom presentation to make a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder correct answer: GAD is defined as excessive anxiety and worry about several events or activities for most days during at least a 6-month period
What is mania? correct answer: Severe episode of elevated/euphoric or irritable mood and increased energy that usually lasts at least a week and severely interferes with the sufferers ability to function
What is hypomania? correct answer: It is characterized by somewhat elevated or irritable mood that may more mildly interfere with a person's functioning. [Show Less]