Liek Flashcards

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Folic acid deficiency is associated with excessive alcohol intake and malnutrition.

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Folate B vitamin (vitamin B9)

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Acute decline in mental status and is temporary. Common causes are fever, shock, drugs, alcohol, and dehydration.

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Delirium

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Disease involves a permanent change to the brain that causes short-term memory loss, agnosia, apraxia, and aphasia.

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Alzheimer’s

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Characterized by loss of the ability to execute or carry out learned purposeful movements despite the desire and the physical ability to perform the movements.

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Apraxia

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includes detecting disease at an early stage to halt or slow its progress. All screening tests and lab tests (e.g., mammography, Pap smears)

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Secondary prevention

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One the most common tools used to assess for dementia.

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Folstein Mini-Mental State Exam

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