NUR 1212C Exam 2 – Study Guide and Exam Review Material
Agnosia - ANS ✔✔inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a
result of brain damage.
Agraphia - ANS ✔✔acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate
through writing
Alzheimer's - ANS ✔✔A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental
functions.
Aphasia - ANS ✔✔loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.
Apraxia - ANS ✔✔inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.
Cognitive disorders - ANS ✔✔category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive
abilities including learning, memory, perception, and problem solving
Confabulation - ANS ✔✔disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated,
distorted, or misinterpreted memories
Delirium - ANS ✔✔characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and
speech
Dementia - ANS ✔✔memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
Hallucinations - ANS ✔✔an experience involving the apparent perception of something not
present.
, Hypermetamorphosis - ANS ✔✔A tendency to attend indiscriminately and react to every visual
stimulus
Hyperorality - ANS ✔✔A condition characterized by insertion of inappropriate objects in the
mouth.
Hypervigilance - ANS ✔✔enhanced state of sensory sensitivity
Illusions - ANS ✔✔Can still reason with these and talk the pt out of it
Preservation - ANS ✔✔inability to switch ideas along with the social context, as evidenced by
the repetition of words or gestures after they have ceased to be socially relevant
Pseudodementia - ANS ✔✔situation where a person who has depression also has cognitive
impairment that looks like dementia.
Sundowning - ANS ✔✔Late day confusion
S/S of dementia while enhance during these hours
Euthymia - ANS ✔✔Normal level of mood
Serotonin syndrome - ANS ✔✔Too much serotonin in the body
High temp, agitation, tremor, sweating, diarrhea
Dystonia - ANS ✔✔stiffness or muscle rigidity, body spasms, eye deviations
Agnosia - ANS ✔✔inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a
result of brain damage.
Agraphia - ANS ✔✔acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate
through writing
Alzheimer's - ANS ✔✔A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental
functions.
Aphasia - ANS ✔✔loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.
Apraxia - ANS ✔✔inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.
Cognitive disorders - ANS ✔✔category of mental health disorders that primarily affect cognitive
abilities including learning, memory, perception, and problem solving
Confabulation - ANS ✔✔disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated,
distorted, or misinterpreted memories
Delirium - ANS ✔✔characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and
speech
Dementia - ANS ✔✔memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
Hallucinations - ANS ✔✔an experience involving the apparent perception of something not
present.
, Hypermetamorphosis - ANS ✔✔A tendency to attend indiscriminately and react to every visual
stimulus
Hyperorality - ANS ✔✔A condition characterized by insertion of inappropriate objects in the
mouth.
Hypervigilance - ANS ✔✔enhanced state of sensory sensitivity
Illusions - ANS ✔✔Can still reason with these and talk the pt out of it
Preservation - ANS ✔✔inability to switch ideas along with the social context, as evidenced by
the repetition of words or gestures after they have ceased to be socially relevant
Pseudodementia - ANS ✔✔situation where a person who has depression also has cognitive
impairment that looks like dementia.
Sundowning - ANS ✔✔Late day confusion
S/S of dementia while enhance during these hours
Euthymia - ANS ✔✔Normal level of mood
Serotonin syndrome - ANS ✔✔Too much serotonin in the body
High temp, agitation, tremor, sweating, diarrhea
Dystonia - ANS ✔✔stiffness or muscle rigidity, body spasms, eye deviations
