What is dementia? Dementia is defined as a mental health condition that is characterized by a loss of cognition, involving one or more cognitive domains (learning and memory, language, executive function, complex attention, perceptual-motor, social cognition) – the deficit must be a change from the patient’s previous baseline and be severe enough to impact daily […]
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First, let’s define dementia. Dementia is a chronic loss of cognitive functioning that interferes with a person’s daily life. This includes the ability to think, reason, and remember. Geriatric Psychiatrists Can Diagnose Dementia With Different Types The common types of dementia include: Common Dementia Symptoms Sign 1: Memory loss that affects day-to-day abilities, Sign 2: Difficulty performing
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Geriatric psychiatry is a field of medicine that specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating geriatric patients or seniors who are 65 years or older. Aging is a natural process that all of us endure at one point in our lives, but for some, it can come with unwanted changes in their mood, cognition, and quality
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In normal human experience, when bad things or negative events occur, we would like to believe that we would do whatever is necessary to change the situation. A phenomenon known as learned helplessness theory has shown that when people feel like they have no control over what happens, they tend to simply give up. Continue
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What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in someone who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war, or rape, or who has been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious bodily injury. PTSD has
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Pacific Neuropsychiatric Specialists Monthly Newsletter keeps you updated with the latest up-to-date news from the company. For this month’s newsletter, get to know Daniela Vasquez, Executive Account Manager, and find out what it is like to work at PNS.
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Social anxiety is the overwhelming feeling of worry about every day activities. Activities that some people might take for granted and engage in with no problem – interacting with strangers, parties or large gatherings, using public facilities such as a public restroom, and even dining in public. These types of environments may cause a lot
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Regulating one’s emotions can be a hard thing to learn. We all have those times where we are just so angry it’s hard to control our actions–Or our mood range dramatically from elated to hopeless. Not only do mood swings create a negative experience for us, they can also impact our relationships with other people
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There are three types of Anger: Aggressive anger is anger expressed directly to someone or themselves either physically or psychologically. This can be illustrated with yelling or hitting. Passive aggression is when a person internalizes their emotions and avoids dealing with the situation. This can be expressed as ‘holding a grudge’, spreading rumors, or not
Sexual dysfunction is an issue that can happen in both men and women, and is a disruption of any phase of the sexual response cycle. This cycle typically includes excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution. Although sexual dysfunction is seldom talked about due to stigma and fear of embarrassment, it is extremely common and occurs due
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