Alterations in cognition

Alterations in cognition

1. Sensory

2. Motor

3. Cognitive / Consciousness

   • Arousal (Awake Action Active)
     • Mediates
       • Reticular-activating system / Alteration
         • Confusion
           • Delirium / Confused Thinking / Reduced awareness environment
         • Disorientation
         • Lethargy
         • Obtundation
         • Stupor
         • Coma
           • Brain Death
           • Cerebral Death
   • Awareness (Self Environment mood)
     • Alteration
       • Dysmnesia /Low O2 /Low blood / Toxins Chemicals
         • Hippocampus/Temporal Lobe
           • Anterograde amnesia
             • Rehabilation
           • Retrograde amnesia
       • Agnosis
         • Inability to recognize things
           • tactile/visual/auditory
       • Aphasia
         • Problem with language
       • Dysphasia (Speech Impairement)
         • Expressive (Express)
         • Receptive (Understanding)
     • Alzheimers
       • Leading cause of dimensia
       • Irreversible
     • Dimentia - Failure of cerebral function
       • Group of symptoms that affect memory and reasoning
     • Seizure Disorder
       • Seizure
         • Grand mal seizure
         • Absence seizure
         • Status epilepticus
           • Lasting more than 5 minutes
       • Epilepy
         • Multiple Seizures
       • Convulsion
         • Movements
   • Cerebral Hemodynamics
     • Increased cerebral blood flow
       • Brain herniation