Impaired Judgement: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Impaired Judgement

Frontal Lobe Neoplasm

Headache Insomnia Drowsiness Changes in Personality Confusion Depression Easily Irritable Impaired judgement Loss of Vision Decreased heart and respiratory rate Communication [watercures.org]

Hallucinogen Abuse

Effects of PCP Use Include: Flashbacks Acute Anxiety Depression Eventual Development of Schizophrenia Impaired Judgement Exaggerated Fear & Waking Terrors Ketamine: Known [harborvillageflorida.com]

Death or severe injury due to impaired judgement while intoxicated. 2 Long-term Effects of LSD on the Brain According to the Cleveland Clinic, the exact effect of LSD on the [luxury.rehabs.com]

[…] as the date-rape drug, ketamine use impairs one’s ability to move, and is often coupled with feelings of numbness. [harborvillageflorida.com]

Chronic Alcoholism

Liver Disease Unlike many alcohol-related health problems, such as alcohol poisoning, impaired judgement or blacking out, a person doesn’t have to drink a lot in one sitting [drugrehab.com]

Alcohol Abuse

The person’s perception and judgement may be significantly impaired. 0.25 percent: This results in impairment of all mental, sensory, and physical capabilities so great that [americanaddictioncenters.org]

It begins to affect the part of your brain associated with judgement and decision making, causing you to be more reckless and uninhibited. [nhs.uk]

The alcohol also impairs the cells in your nervous system, making you feel lightheaded and adversely affecting your reaction time and co-ordination. 8 to 9 units After drinking [nhs.uk]

Dementia

Common dementia signs and symptoms Memory loss Impaired judgement Difficulties with abstract thinking Faulty reasoning Inappropriate behavior Loss of communication skills [helpguide.org]

Common dementia signs and symptoms include: Memory loss Impaired judgement Difficulties with abstract thinking Faulty reasoning Inappropriate behavior Loss of communication [helpguide.org]

It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgement. Consciousness is not affected. [web.archive.org]

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

In sub-anaesthetic doses, impaired judgement, lowered seizure threshold and sensitisation of the heart to arrhythmias may occur. [web.archive.org]

Hypertensive Encephalopathy

Alterations in consciousness may follow several hours later, which include impaired judgement and memory, confusion, somnolence and stupor. [en.wikipedia.org]

Alcohol Dementia

[…] logical thinking on tasks which require planning, organising, common sense judgement and social skills Problems with balance Decreased initiative and spontaneity. [dementiagippsland.com.au]

Hallucinations Delusions Impaired memory Personality changes – ranging from depressed and withdrawn to excited and irritable. [healthhype.com]

This can vary from person to person, but generally symptoms will include: Impaired ability to learn things Personality changes Problems with memory Difficulty with clear and [dementiagippsland.com.au]

Alzheimer Disease

It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgement. Consciousness is not affected. [who.int]

Progression is evident as increasing impairment of memory developing gradually into a global impairment of cognition, including orientation, language, judgement, perceptual [dx.doi.org]

The impairment in cognitive function is commonly accompanied, and occasionally preceded, by deterioration in emotional control, social behaviour, or motivation. [who.int]

Traumatic Brain Injury

[…] frontal atrophy may have impaired post-retrieval evaluation processes leading the patient to falsely conclude, based on more general characteristics of the study episode, [dx.doi.org]

[…] s (1996) frontal patient often reported confident remember judgements when falsely recalling information, suggesting that the anterior communicating artery aneurysm and related [dx.doi.org]

Mental Disorder

It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgement. [web.archive.org]

The impairment in cognitive function is commonly accompanied, and occasionally preceded, by deterioration in emotional control, social behaviour, or motivation. [web.archive.org]

Paranoid Personality Disorder

[…] self control because of his mental impairment caused by the disorder. [kentonline.co.uk]

“His paranoid personality disorder meant he could not make a rational judgement. [kentonline.co.uk]

"What he did was irrational but his disorder had totally impaired his ability to exercise self control. [kentonline.co.uk]

Temporal Lobe Tumor

This presents as impairment of short-term memory (also called working memory) and of judgement about the recency of events. [patient.info]

Impairment of this ability to categorise means reduction in both ability and fluency in listing categories. [patient.info]

Boxer's Dementia

Cognitive deficits that can follow TBI include impaired attention; disrupted insight, judgement, and thought; reduced processing speed; distractibility; and deficits in executive [en.wikipedia.org]

Patients may also suffer from impairment or loss of speech and language difficulties. [onhealth.com]

Memory loss, the most common cognitive impairment among head-injured people, occurs in 20–79% of people with closed head trauma, depending on severity. [en.wikipedia.org]

Multi-Infarct Dementia

Insight and judgement may be relatively well preserved. [azpsychiatry.info]

[…] functioning Loss of visuospatial abilities Confusion Apathy Motor disorders (e.g., gait disturbance, urinary incontinence) Later symptoms: Further cognitive decline: loss of judgement [amboss.com]

Impairment of cognitive function is commonly uneven, so that there may be memory loss, intellectual impairment, and focal neurological signs. [azpsychiatry.info]

Bipolar Disorder

It affects memory, thinking, orientation, comprehension, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgement. [who.int]

The impairment in cognitive function is commonly accompanied, and occasionally preceded, by deterioration in emotional control, social behaviour, or motivation. [who.int]

Huntington Disease

The disease typically ends in a state of disorientation, impaired memory, judgement, and intellect (dementia). [clinicaltrials.gov]

Cannabis Abuse

The acute effects of short‐term cannabis use ( Volkow 2014 ) include impaired memory ( Solowij 2008 ); impaired motor co‐ordination with an associated increased risk of involvement [dx.doi.org]

[…] in motor vehicle accidents ( Hall 2009 ); altered judgement; and, in high doses, paranoia and psychosis. [dx.doi.org]

Wilson Disease

This comes in two, not mutually exclusive, categories: frontal lobe disorder (may present as impulsivity, impaired judgement, promiscuity, apathy and executive dysfunction [en.wikipedia.org]

Meningovascular Syphilis

In over a quarter there was resolution of impaired memory, judgement, insight, speech, calculation, delusions and hallucinations. [kraeplinpsychiatry.wordpress.com]

Cocaine Abuse

[…] thinking Poor judgement Anger Intense cravings for cocaine Getting Help for Cocaine Addiction If you’re battling with an addiction to cocaine — also known as snow, sniff, [sanctuarylodge.com]

/constantly runny nose Dilated pupils Rapid heart rate Psychological Depression Anxiety Irritability Mood swings Inflated ego Brief euphoric state Psychosis Restlessness Impaired [sanctuarylodge.com]

Altitude Sickness

Avoiding making important commitments for the first 24 hours after arrival as your judgement may be impaired. [traveldoctor.com.au]

Decompression Sickness

The exact biochemistry is not known, but the symptoms include impaired judgement, loss of short-term memory, slowed response time, and sometimes euphoria. [bishopmuseum.org]

When breathed at high concentrations, nitrogen can impair our neurological abilities. [bishopmuseum.org]

Obviously, just as one should not drive while intoxicated, diving with impaired mental abilities is at the very least unwise. [bishopmuseum.org]

Viral Disease

Viral Fever Introduction Cause and Pathogenesis Symptoms and Signs Investigations and Diagnosis Treatment and Prognosis Prevention Introduction Viral fever refers to a broad spectrum of conditions where viral infections are associated with elevations of body temperature. The term encompasses a wide variety of[…] [webhealthcentre.com]

Depression

A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions form by various mechanisms. Erosion-related: Blowout: a depression created by wind erosion typically in either a partially vegetated sand dune ecosystem or dry soils (such as a post-glacial loess environment). Glacial[…] [en.wikipedia.org]

Substance Abuse

Abstract Hospital-wide rumors and anecdotal reports had suggested that there was a potentially serious problem of alcohol and drug abuse among the psychiatric patients of this hospital. The authors describe a systematic, evaluative approach which gave direct and detailed information on the nature and extent of[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hypoglycemia

A 71-year-old woman previously diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia was transferred to our emergency unit because of loss of consciousness. Her plasma glucose level was 27 mg/dL, and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) revealed postprandial asymptomatic hypoglycemia. A hypervascular tumor was identified via[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Endogenous Depression

Abstract We assessed the 8:00 AM ratio of free cortisol/18-hydroxy-11-deoxycorticosterone (18-OH-DOC) in 56 endogenous depressive inpatients and in 22 normal volunteers. A ratio higher than 40 was associated with a diagnostic sensitivity for endogenous depression of 75%, a specificity of 95.5%, and a diagnostic[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Reactive Depression

93 cases of reactive depression have been followed up in order to investigate the long-term course of illness. By independent classification of reactive and endogenous depressions the authors agreed on diagnosis for 94%. Ten subgroups of reactive depressions are illustrated by case histories. It is of practical[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Hyponatremia

Hyponatremia Other names Hyponatraemia, low blood sodium, hyponatræmia Sodium Specialty Internal medicine Symptoms Decreased ability to think, headaches, nausea, poor balance, confusion, seizures, coma[1][2] Types Low volume, normal volume, high volume[3] Diagnostic method Serum sodium < 135 mmol/L[2] Differential[…] [en.wikipedia.org]