Prion Disease Assessment

Have you or a loved one recently been diagnosed with prion disease? Have you undergone your yearly screening for neurocognitive issues, memory, or dementia?

What is prion disease?

Prion diseases are neurogenerative disorders. The diagnosis of the neuropsychological symptoms of prion disease is more formally known as “major or mild neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease.”

The major indicators of prion disease that affect a person’s neurological or cognitive functioning include problems with:

• Memory/cognition.
• Orientation.
• Executive functioning skills.
• Behavioral disturbance(s).
• Lack of control over muscles and movements.
• Abnormal startle reflex.

You may be experiencing prion disease in the same ways as other neurocognitive disorders such as mild or severe dementia, though often prion disease comes with its own set of effects to motor function.

The effects of prion disease on your brain functioning and mental health may range in severity. Your mental health may be affected as the onset of these kinds of behaviors and the effects can have a drastic change to your normal everyday functioning. Your lifestyle and quality of life may be destined to change.

How is prion disease related to mental health and brain health?

Mental health is the condition of being mental and emotionally sound.

Neuropsychological difficulties and effects of your cognition make for big changes and a greater need to upkeep your mental health.

Prion disease may have an impact on you and your mental health in such ways as:

• Coping with the impact of the disorder.
• Cognition may decline.
• Frustration or confusion about the disorder.
• Depression.
• Anxiety.
• Family members may struggle with accepting the impact of the disorder.

What can Thoughtwise do for me?

At Thoughtwise, we can offer you and your loved ones the care and services that you need. We can assist you from the beginning and throughout your life to gain traction on a higher quality of life and help you upkeep your cognitive functioning to your utmost potential.

At Thoughtwise we can offer services to help assist you through a multidisciplinary approach if you are suffering from prion disease through:

• Initial screening.
• Neuropsychological testing to identify areas in which have been impacted.
• Ongoing monitoring of your health. 
• Family counseling to assist you and your family to manage the disorder and the impact of the disorder.
• 1:1 talk therapy and group counseling to help you maintain a primary approach towards mental health.
• Support groups to learn and share with others.
• Cognitive-behavioral approaches to upkeep your mental health and executive functioning.

At Thoughtwise we offer comprehensive clinical screenings and evaluations that help you determine if you are struggling with a neurological, neuropsychological disorder, or neurocognitive disorder such as prion disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s and among others.

Screening is the first step to early intervention.

Please contact us about primary and secondary care for your mental health and neuropsychological wellbeing. Starting with us now may be taking a step ahead for your life.