Perceptual distortions - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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Agonist correct answer: a drug that attaches to a receptor and produces neural actions that "mimic" or enhance those of a neurotransmitter Antagonist correct answer: a drug that blocks the action of a neurotransmitter what does drug lipid solubility affect? correct answer: blood brain barriers passage and placental barrier permeation do psychoactive drugs create new effects? correct answer: No Drugs alter neurotransmitters activity to exert their effects . T or F correct answer...

Varcarolis Ch. 23 Neurocognitive Disorders 1. An older adult patient takes multiple medications daily. Over 2 days, the patient developed confusion, slurred speech, an unsteady gait, and fluctuating levels of orientation. These findings are most characteristic of: a. delirium. c. amnestic syndrome. b. dementia. d. Alzheimers disease. ️a. delirium. Delirium is characterized by an abrupt onset of fluctuating levels of awareness, clouded consciousness, perceptual disturbances, a...

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Schizophrenia - correct answer -A series of thought disorders characterized by perceptual distortions or a break from reality. -1% of the population has the genetic predisposition (dopamine abnormality) for schizophrenia, and when an individual with this predisposition is exposed to significant life stressors, symptoms often develop. -Because of the perceptual distortions associated with this disorder, patients often have difficulty functioning and meeting basic needs and they demonstrate ...

CSD 146 EXAM 1 PSU | LATEST UPDATE | 2024/2025 | RATED A+ 3 components of communication language, speech, hearing 3 principles of evidence based practice external scientific evidence clinical expertise/ expert opinion client/ patient/ caregiver perspectives goal: integration of these 3 3 sections of the ear outer, middle, inner 3 systems involved in speech respiration, phonation, articulation 4 components of speech breath support voice articulation fluency abduction of...

What is communication? - Answer--Process of sharing information between two people -Transmission and reception What are the four main processes of communication? - Answer-*F*irst *T*hanksgiving *R*eally *C*ounts -Formulation -Transmission -Reception -Comprehension What is language? Define each component with examples - Answer--Socially shared code of words, sounds, symbols -Content (semantics) -Form (*S*yntax, *M*orphology, *P*honology) -Use (pragmatics) What is speech? What systems...

A 10- year- old boy who has severe developmental delay exhibits immediate and involuntary repetition and ambient sounds and vocalizations made by other people. What is the term for this phenomenon? A. Dysarthria B. Echolalia C. Echopraxia D. Word salad - correct answer -B. Echolalia Echolalia - correct answer -The pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person. A 19- year- old college freshman wears a wizard h...