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Healthcare Vocabulary 4--Mental Health
Mental Health-Related Terms
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| Agitation | vocal or motor behaviors such as shouting, fidgeting, pacing, screaming, or wandering |
| Agnosia | loss of the ability to recognize familiar objects |
| Alzheimer's Disease | a progressive impairment of memory, reasoning, and judgment that is related to cellular changes within the brain and that leads to loss of independence in activities of daily living |
| Aphasia | language difficulty due to brain damage, which can affect listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills; loss of the ability to use or understand language |
| Apraxia | loss of the ability to carry out planned movements at will (e.g., dressing, eating, bathing) |
| Catastrophic Reaction | overreaction to circumstances |
| Cognitive | dealing with the thoughts and emotions |
| Combativeness | physically aggressive behavior; hitting, kicking, scratching, biting |
| Confusion | a mental state characterized by disorientation regarding time, place, or person |
| Delirium | memory and thinking impairment that comes on suddenly and is caused by illness or toxic reaction in the body, usually reversible |
| Dementia | severe impairment of cognitive such as thinking, memory, and personality; comes on slowly and worsens over time; usually irreversible, depending on the cause of the dementia |
| Disorientation | the state of mental confusion or loss of bearings in relation to the sense of person, place, or time |
| Hallucination | sensory perceptions that seem real to the person experiencing them, but are not perceived by others |
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