A patient's medical chart indicates that her physician recommended a trial of donepezil (Aricept). What is the likely diagnosis?

a. Down syndrome
b. Alzheimer's disease
c. Parkinson's disease
d. Huntington's disease

Answer: b.

Psychology

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A patient, after being told he has terminal cancer, says, "No, that must be someone else. The lab results must have gotten mixed up." This is an example of what stage of response to dying, according to Kübler-Ross's theory?

a. denial b. anger c. bargaining d. depression

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Within the category of disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders is a disorder in which the person chronically steals items they really don't need. This disorder is called

a. pyromania. b. kleptomania. c. trichotillomania. d. hoarding disorder.

Psychology