Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

(^56) 5. 3. 4. 2.^ refiprogress more rapidly, and there is an earlier appearance now enable clinicians to use specifibody disease is fairly similar to AD; however, it tends to tify the disease at an accuracy rate of 70% to 90% (Bourgeois, Seaman, & Servis, 2008).cerebral cortex and brainstem (Andreasen & Black, 2006). Va sc u la rDementia Due to Lewy Body Disease. Lewy bodies—eosinophilic inclusion bodies—seen in the traumatic brain injury.signifitoms associated with dementia can be brought on by a equivalent of small strokes caused by arterial hypertension or cerebral emboli or thrombi, which destroy many areas of the brain. The onset of symptoms is more abrupt than in et al., 2006). This disorder is distinctive by the presence of rather than as a gradual deterioration.of visual hallucinations and parkinsonian features (Rabins, Dementia Due to HIV DiseaseDementia Due to Head Traumaassociated with human immunodefiby biopsy or autopsy examination of brain tissue, although ease can lead to brain infections by other organisms. HIV also appears to cause dementia directly.AD and runs a highly variable course, progressing in steps ●^ nement of diagnostic criteria and new diagnostic tools ALTERATIONS IN PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION cant cerebrovascular disease. The client suffers the Dementia. This type of dementia is caused by. The immune dysfunction c clinical features to iden-. The syndrome of symp- ciency virus (HIV) dis-Clinically, Lewy
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