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Agitation (dễ cáu gắt) is an unpleasant state of extreme arousal, increased tension, and irritability anxiety (lo lắng)Fear or apprehension or dread of impending danger and accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiable stimulus.Alzheimer diseasea progressive degenerative disease of the brain that causes impairment of memory and dementia manifested by confusion, visual-spatial disorientation, impairment of language function progressing from anomia to fluent aphasia, inability tocalculate, and deterioration of judgment; delusions and hallucinations may occur. The most common degenerative brain disorder, AD makes up 70% of all cases of dementia. ...
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More definitions More definitionsAgitation (dễ cáu gắt)is an unpleasant state of extreme arousal, increased tension, and irritabilityanxiety (lo lắng)Fear or apprehension or dread of impending danger and accompanied byrestlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a clearly identifiablestimulus.Alzheimer diseasea progressive degenerative disease of the brain that causes impairment of memoryand dementia manifested by confusion, visual-spatial disorientation, impairment oflanguage function progressing from anomia to fluent aphasia, inability tocalculate, and deterioration of judgment; delusions and hallucinations may occur.The most common degenerative brain disorder, AD makes up 70% of all cases ofdementia. Onset is usually in late middle life, and death typically ensues in 5–10years.Synonym(s): Alzheimer dementiadementiaThe loss, usually progressive, of cognitive and intellectual functions, withoutimpairment of perception or consciousness; caused by a variety of disorders,(structural or degenerative) but most commonly associated with structural braindisease. Characterized by disorientation, impaired memory, judgment, andintellect, and a shallow labile affect.Synonym(s): amentiaDepression (trầm cảm)A temporary mental state or chronic mental disorder characterized by feelings ofsadness, loneliness, despair, low self-esteem, and self-reproach; accompanyingsigns include psychomotor retardation or less frequently agitation, withdrawalfrom social contact, and vegetative states such as loss of appetite and insomnia.Syn: dejection(1), depressive reaction, depressive syndromestupor (ngẩn ngơ, đờ đẫn)A state of impaired consciousness in which the individual shows a markeddiminution in reactivity to environmental stimuli and can be aroused only bycontinual stimulation.agnosia (mất nhận thức)Impairment of ability to recognize, or comprehend the meaning of, varioussensory stimuli, not attributable to disorders of the primary receptors or generalintellect; agnosias are receptive defects caused by lesions in various portions of thecerebrum. Syn: agnea.delirium (mê sảng)An altered state of consciousness, consisting of confusion, distractibility,disorientation, disordered thinking and memory, defective perception (illusionsand hallucinations), prominent hyperactivity, agitation, and autonomic nervoussystem overactivity; caused by illness, medication, or toxic, structural, andmetabolic disordersnervous (căng thẳng)2. Easily excited or agitated; suffering from mental or emotional instability; tenseor anxious.3. Formerly, denoting a temperament characterized by excessive mental andphysical alertness, rapid pulse, excitability, often volubility, but not always fixityof purpose.amnesia (chứng quên)A disturbance in the memory of information stored in long-term memory, incontrast to short-term memory, manifested by total or partial inability to recall pastexperiences.psychosis (rối loạn tâm thần)A mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of apersons mental capacity, affective response, and capacity to recognize reality,communicate, and relate to others to the degree of interfering with that personscapacity to cope with the ordinary demands of everyday life. The psychoses aredivided into two major classifications according to their origins: those associatedwith organic brain syndromes (Korsakoff syndrome); and those less clearlyorganic and having some functional component(s) (the schizophrenias, bipolardisorder).delusion (ảo tưởng)A false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite incontrovertibleevidence to the contrary.illusion (ảo giác)A false perception; the mistaking of something for what it is not.hallucination (ảo giác)The apparent, often strong subjective perception of an object or event when nosuch stimulus or situation is present; may be visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory,or tactile.paranoia (hoang tưởng)A severe but relatively rare mental disorder characterized by the presence ofsystematized delusions, often of a persecutory character involving being followed,poisoned, or harmed by other means, in an otherwise intact personality. See Also:paranoid personality.schizophrenia (tâm thần phân liệt)A term coined by Bleuler, synonymous with and replacing dementia praecox; acommon type of psychosis, characterized by abnormalities in perception, contentof thought, and thought processes (hallucinations and delusions) and by extensivewithdrawal of interest from other people and the outside world, with excessivefocusing on ones own mental life; now considered a group or spectrum ofdisorders rather than a single entity, with distinction sometimes made betweenprocess schizophrenia and reactive schizophrenia.