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| definition of sensory process |
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| involves reception, perception, and reaction to stimuli (what you are receiving and what you are thinking about it) |
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decrease of meaningful stimuli to cerebral cortex, alterations in conception, perception, and cognition
* three kinds (reduced sensory input, lack of meaning, restriction of movement) |
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| take to new environment, dont know what is going on... |
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inability to handle amount or intensity of sensory stimuli, thoughts racing, restlessness, fatigue, loses control
*three factors: increase quantity/quality of internal stimuli, increased quantity/quality of external stimuli, inability to disregard stimuli |
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| increase quantity/quality of internal stimuli |
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| increase quality/quantity of external stimuli |
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| noise, studies, stuff outside of self |
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| inability to disregard stimuli |
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| some medicines stimulate arousal mechanism |
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visual deficit:
presbyopia |
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| muscles in eye begin to weaken, hard to see (focus) on objects close up |
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| clouding of lenses, looks like dirty windshield, surgery can remove/correct |
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| too few tears being produced, itch, get red, burn, OTC drops |
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| IIOP, because of fluid in eye, loss of peripheral vision (any sudden eye pain call physician) more prevalent in AA |
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hearing deficit:
presbycusis |
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| progressive hearing loss of inner ear, hair cells, cant hear high pitches, as progresses cant hear lower pitches as well, speak louder and let them see you talking. |
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hearing deficit:
conduction deficits |
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| cerumen buildup, tumors in ear, or nerve damage, to get the object out put baby oil in ear to soften it, water pic to flush it out, own voice seems louder than others |
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hearing deficit:
central deafness |
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| damage to nerve cells in brain, sound level in unaffected, understanding of language, NO meds or surgery |
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| Vit B deficiency, DM contributes, numbness, tingling, stumbling gait (Vit B12 intervention) |
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| stroke, damage to nerves causes un-coordination, after age 60 |
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state of awareness:
somnolent |
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| extreme drowsiness, responds to stimuli (comes before semicomatose and after confused) |
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| changes in microvasculature, decrease and loss of vision, may be bleeding in veins of the retina |
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| LEADING CAUSE OF BLINDNESS IN ELDERLY, blood vessels hemorrhage and release blood into the eye, prevention fish oils and omega fatty acids, antioxidants and some lazer treatments |
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