General features of personality disorder include all of the ...

[AEWBW]

General features of personality disorder include all of the following EXCEPT
 
  a. an enduring pattern of experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of theindividual's culture.
 b. a pattern of thinking, behaving, and feeling that is flexible and occurs only in specific situations.
  c. an enduring pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
  d. a pattern of behavior that is stable over time, and whose onset can be traced back to at least adolescence or early adulthood.

Question 2

Identify the main neurocognitive disorders discussed in your text, and indicate how likely an average older person is to deal with one of these.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Bison]

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

- delirium may result from substance intoxication or medical situations such as anesthesia
- dementia with Lewy bodies occurs when masses of proteins create neuron damage
- vascular dementia is dementia caused by blood vessel problems, especially in stroke
- people with vascular dementia often face a more abrupt and acute onset of symptoms but less cognitive impairment than with Alzheimer's disease
- dementia may be due to Parkinson's disease
- dementia due to Pick's disease is the most wellknown of the frontotemporal dementias
- memory impairments are caused by substances or medical conditions, including anterograde and retrograde amnesia
- Korsakoff's syndrome is a cognitive disorder resulting from long-term thiamine deficiency due to alcohol consumption
- dementia occurs in about 5 to 7 of older persons, although most older people do not have dementia