Mild Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
Assignment : Mild Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
Explain the diagnostic criteria for this disorder
Explain the evidenced-based psychotherapy and psychopharmacologic treatment for Mild vascular neurocognitive disorder.
Identify the risks of different types of therapy and explain how the benefits of the therapy that might be achieved might outweigh the risks.
Support your rationale with references to the Learning Resources or other academic resource.
Required Readings( Need 3 + references).
Acadia Pharmaceuticals. (2017). Transform the treatment of Parkinson’s disease psychosis with NUPLAZID. Retrieved from https://www.nuplazidhcp.com/?gclid=CIHS5auvwtMCFQkaaQodrU0FGQ
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
· “Neurocognitive Disorders”
Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publications.
· Chapter 63, “Delirium”
· Chapter 64, “Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Alzheimer’s Disease”
· Chapter 65, “Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder”
· Chapter 66, “Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder”
· Chapter 67, “Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Parkinson’s Disease”
Hopkins, S. A., & Chan, D. (2016). Key emerging issues in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology, 263(2), 407–413. doi:10.1007/s00415-015-7880-7
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
· Chapter 21, “Neurocognitive Disorders” (pp. 694–741)
Stahl, S. M. (2017). Prescriber’s Guide: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology (6th ed.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.