| |
Cognitive Disorders - Cognitive Disorders Symptom, Cause, Treatment
The cognitive disorders include dementia, delirium and amnesia. Physicians and scientists in the Division of Cognitive Disorders and Neurogerontology are particularly interested in memory loss and dementia.
-
Delirium is a condition in which changes in cognition, including a disturbance in consciousness, occur over a relatively short period of time.
-
Dementia is a condition consisting of several cognitive impairments including significant memory deficit.
-
Amnestic Disorder refers to a discreet memory impairment unaccompanied by other cognitive impairments.
Symptoms of Cognitive Disorders
The possibility of neuropharmacologic rehabilitation of patients with such deficits is a challenge for clinicians and scientists.Cognitive Disorders consist following symptoms:
- Control obsession - this is the tendency of the patient to strive for excessive control over others, through government action. This is probably a projection of an unconscious fear of losing control over ones' self, even though the conscious manifestation is viewed as compassion.
- Racist/feminist hypocrisy - the patient passionately advocates discrimination based on sex or race, while loudly proclaiming opposition to policies which are "racist" or "sexist."
- sexual dysfunction - the patient is highly anxious about sexual matters
- utopian thinking - A delusional belief that the patient knows simple, side effect free solutions to all social problems. In some cases this is associated with psychotic delusions of grandeur.
- nthroplastic ideas - a delusion that behavioral conditioning, performed by the government, will cure all behavioral and social problems, i.e., will change all non-CDP people into CDP.
Causes of Cognitive Disorders
The General Causes of Cognitive Disorders are below
- Direct effects of cancer on the central nervous system (CNS).
- Indirect CNS effects related to systemic complications of cancer such as organ failure (e.g., hepatic or renal failure), metabolic or electrolyte disturbance (e.g., hypoglycemia, hypercalcemia, hyponatremia, or dehydration), and infection.
- Exogenous substances such as the wide variety of medications and treatments used in these patients, including most of the commonly used chemotherapeutic agents, bone marrow or stem cell transplantation, biologic response modifiers (e.g., interleukin and interferon), glucocorticoids, and especially psychoactive agents such as opioid analgesics, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, antihistamines, and other sedating agents.
- Withdrawal phenomena associated with substances such as alcohol and benzodiazepines.
Treatment of Cognitive Disorders
In most patients, CDP is a refractory disorder with no effective treatment.Some patients have been helped to overcome their disorder by one or more of:
- Life in a true "progressive utopia" such as Cuba, Vietnam or China.
- Religious conversion.
- Military service.
- Poverty.
- Conservative talk radio - Gordon Liddy, Ken Hamblin, Rush Limbaugh
|
|
|
