Glossary
Adverse reaction:
A reaction that is not anticipated and detrimentally affects
the patient
Aggression:
Overly aggressive behavior.
Aging:
The medical conditions from getting older.
Agitation:
A state of increased tension with episodes of emotional and physical
irritability.
Alcohol abuse:
Excessive use of alcohol ranging from binge drinking to severe
alcoholism
Alcoholism:
Excessive addictive use of alcohol.
Alzheimer's Disease:
Dementia-causing brain disease mostly in seniors and
the elderly.
Anxiety:
A feeling of apprehension, and fear without apparent stimulus that
is associated sometime with somatic responses
Behavioral disorders:
Disorders affecting behavior and emotional wellbeing
Brain cancer:
Cancer of the brain.
Brain conditions:
Medical conditions that affect the brain
Chronic Illness:
Any form of continuing chronic illness.
Cognitive impairment:
General loss of mental or cognitive ability
Concentration difficulty:
Reduced concentration ability or lack of concentration
Confusion:
Mental confusion and impaired thinking.
Coordination problems:
Symptoms affecting physical coordination.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease:
Very rare prion brain disease
Dementia:
Various mental impairment conditions.
Dementia With Lewy Bodies:
Second most frequent cause of dementia in elderly
adults.
Depression:
Persistent depressed mood with various depressive symptoms.
Depressive symptoms:
Inappropriate depressed mood.
Detachment:
Inappropriate loss of interest or involvement.
Disorganization:
Difficulty staying organized in society as a symptom
Disorientation:
Forgetting your location or other mental confusion
Down Syndrome:
A chromosome syndrome causing physical effects and mental
retardation.
Drooling:
Excessive saliva in the mouth.
Emotional symptoms:
Symptoms affecting the emotions.
Fatigue:
Excessive tiredness or weakness.
Fever:
Raised body temperature usually with other symptoms.
Forgetfulness:
Forgetting things or loss of memory ability
Grief or loss:
Emotional response to a death or other loss.
Head injury:
Injury to the head affecting skull and/or brain.
Hearing impairment:
Reduced ability to hear sounds.
Huntington's Disease:
Inherited disease causing progressive mental deterioration.
Inability to speak:
Inability to speak (mutism)
Insomnia:
Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep for long enough
Kidney disease:
Reduced kidney function from various causes.
Language problems:
Symptoms affecting language processing.
Lead poisoning:
Poisoning from lead exposure or ingestion.
Liver conditions:
Various conditions of the liver.
Memory loss:
The loss of ones ability to recall from their memory.
Mercury poisoning:
Poisoning from excessive mercury ingestion.
Movement symptoms:
Changes to movement or motor abilities
Multi-Infarct Dementia:
Dementia due to brain blood clots and strokes.
Myoclonus:
Sudden involuntary muscle twitching or movement.
Over-diagnosed conditions:
Conditions that are diagnosed when another cause
exists.
Paranoia:
Delusion that people or events conspire against you.
Personality change:
Change in a person's behavior and personality
Pneumonia:
Infection of the lung by bacteria, viruses or fungus.
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy:
Rare brain condition
Psychiatric disorders:
Any of various mental health disorders
Reading symptoms:
Problems with reading ability
Sick:
Feeling ill or off color
Speech symptoms:
Problems with speech or voice.
Subdural hematoma:
Type of bleeding in the brain
Swallowing difficulty:
Difficulty or pain when swallowing
Thyroid disorders:
Any disorder of the thyroid gland.
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Vision loss:
Impaired vision or loss of vision
Vitamin B deficiency:
Deficiency in any of the B group vitamins
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