Exam 4: MH707 MH 707 Latest Psychiatric-Mental

Exam 4: MH707 / MH 707 (Latest

2025 / 2026) Psychiatric-Mental Health Assessment Across the Lifespan | Questions and Answers | 100% Correct - Frontier

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Dementia, also referred to as major neurocognitive disorder

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is marked by severe impairment in memory, judgment, orientation, and cognition

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The subcategories are

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(1) dementia of the Alzheimer type (Alzheimer Dementia), which usually occurs in persons older than 65 years of age and is manifested by progressive intellectual disorientation and dementia, delusions, or depression; (2) vascular dementia, caused by vessel thrombosis or hemorrhage; (3) human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease; 1 / 4

(4) head trauma; (5) Pick disease or frontotemporal lobar degeneration; (6) prion disease such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which is caused by a slow-growing transmittable virus; (7) substance-induced, caused by toxin or medication (e.g., gasoline fumes, atropine) (8) multiple etiologies; (9) not specified (if the cause is unknown)

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Amnestic disorders

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are major neurocognitive disorders caused by other medical conditions. They are marked primarily by memory impairment in addition to other cognitive symptoms. The causes include (1) medical conditions (hypoxia), (2) toxins or medications (e.g., marijuana, diazepam), and (3) unknown causes.

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When testing cognitive functions, the clinician should evaluate

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memory; visuospatial and constructional abilities; and reading, writing, and mathematical abilities.

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Delerium duration

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Acute: hours to days Persistent: weeks to months

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The primary neurotransmitter hypothesized to be involved in delirium is

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acetylcholine, and the major neuroanatomical area is the reticular formation

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The major differential points between dementia and delirium are

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the time to development of the condition and the fluctuation in the level of attention in delirium compared with relatively consistent attention in dementia. The time to development of symptoms is usually short in delirium, and except for vascular dementia caused by stroke, it is usually gradual and insidious in dementia. Although both conditions include cognitive impairment, the changes in dementia are more stable over time and, for example, usually do not fluctuate over a day. A patient with dementia is usually alert; a patient with delirium has episodes of decreased consciousness.

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the hallucinations and delusions of patients with schizophrenia are more constant and better organized than those of patients with

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delirium

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Delirium is a common disorder, with most incidence and prevalence rates reported in

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elderly adults

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Among elderly emergency department patients, 5 to 10 percent have

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delirium

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