The Patient Has Multiple Sclerosis and Develops Depression

question 10

Multiple Choice

The patient has multiple sclerosis and develops depression. What is the best education the nurse can give the patient's family?

• A) "Anytime someone has a brain disease, depression will result."
• B) "Depression is very easy to treat with medications we have available."
• C) "This is a common problem with chronic debilitating diseases but requires close monitoring."
• D) "This is a result of the medications taken for control of symptoms."

Recognize the influence of societal and cultural expectations on the development of motor and cognitive skills.

Understand the physical and cognitive developmental differences between boys and girls during middle childhood.

Identify key brain areas associated with specific cognitive functions and behaviors.

Understand the concept of operations as internalized actions that coordinate with one another according to Piaget's theory.

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Definitions:

Positive Assortative Mating

A mating pattern where individuals with similar phenotypes or genotypes are more likely to mate with each other than by chance.

Homozygosity

Homozygosity is a genetic condition in which an individual has two identical alleles for a particular gene or genes.

Allele Frequencies

A measure of how common a particular genetic variant (allele) is within a population's gene pool.

Genetic Stasis

A period or state in which the genetic composition of a population remains relatively unchanged over time.