Final Exam: NR547 / NR 547 (Latest
Update 2025 / 2026) Differential Diagnosis in Psychiatric-Mental Health across the Lifespan Practicum | Questions and Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Chamberlain
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dementia of the Alzheimer type and vascular dementia, can affect patients'
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language abilities
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Patients with frontal and temporal involvement are likely to have
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marked personality changes and may be irritable and explosive.
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Alzheimer type dementia have increase percent change of?
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Hallucinations and delusions that are paranoid and persecutory and unsystematized in nature
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Donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine, and tacrine
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cholinesterase inhibitors used to treat mild to moderate cognitive impairment in Alzheimer disease improves memory and goal directed thought
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rarely use tacrine because of what
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hepatotoxicity
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what two drugs are more likely to cause gastrointestinal (GI) and neuropsychiatric adverse effects than does donepezil
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Rivastigmine and galantamine
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which drug protects neurons from excessive amounts of glutamate
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memantine
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which drugs are often combined together to improve dementia SOMETIMES
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donepezil and memantine
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inattention and a variable level of consciousness are the hallmark symptoms of which condition there an identifiable underlying cause
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delirium
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