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The risk is increased for elderly or ill because persons who are older or who have terminal medical conditions are more likely to be overpowered by fear of approaching death. They may become fixated on the number of days they have left, which can cause severe anxiety. [6] People in prison are also more likely to develop chronophobia.
Sundowning, or sundown syndrome, [1] is a neurological phenomenon wherein people with delirium or some form of dementia experience increased confusion and restlessness beginning in the late afternoon and early evening.
The bunker experiment was a scientific experiment that began in 1966 to test whether humans, like other species, have an intrinsic circadian clock. [1] It was started by Jürgen Aschoff and Rütger Wever of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology and later taken over by Jürgen Zulley.
The Trail Making Test is a neuropsychological test of visual attention and task switching.It has two parts, in which the subject is instructed to connect a set of 25 dots as quickly as possible while maintaining accuracy. [1]
It was originally introduced by Folstein et al. in 1975, in order to differentiate organic from functional psychiatric patients [5] [6] but is very similar to, or even directly incorporates, tests which were in use previous to its publication. [7] [8] [9] This test is not a mental status examination. The standard MMSE form which is currently ...
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) is a therapy technique for treating insomnia without (or alongside) medications. CBT-I aims to improve sleep habits and behaviors by identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that prevent a person from sleeping well.
The most well-known version of this illusion is known as the stopped-clock illusion, wherein a subject's first impression of the second-hand movement of an analog clock, subsequent to one's directed attention (i.e., saccade) to the clock, is the perception of a slower-than-normal second-hand movement rate (the second-hand of the clock may ...
This also explains why dyschronometria is seen more commonly in the elderly due to the deterioration of physical brain matter with age. Other probable causes for the deterioration of brain matter in the elderly include increased supranational activation , decreased cerebellar activation (which is consistent with fronto-cerebellar dissociation ).