10: Types of Dementia Flashcards
Progressive (permanent) or reversible (potentially)?
Multi-infarct
Progressive (permanent)
What percentage of mild cognitive impairment progresses to dementia each year?
10-15%
More profound deficits in self-awareness, self-monitoring, and self-knowledge compared to patients with AD.
Frontotemporal Dementia (Pick’s Disease)
_____ affects people more in middle age.
Pick’s disease
What deficiency causes Wernicke-Korsakoff’s syndrome?
Thiamine
Loss of ability to understand or express speech.
Aphasia
Theories of causation for vascular dementias (6).
- Lacunae
- Multiembolic events
- Vasculitis
- Blood dyscrasias
- Hypoperfusion
- Anoxic episodes
Progressive (permanent) or reversible (potentially)?
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)
Reversible (potentially)
Early, mid, or late stage AD?
Memory loss, poor judgment, perceptual disturbances, withdrawal, and depression.
Early Stage
_____ (intracellular deposits observed in degenerated neurons) distribute in brain regions involved in learning, memory, and language.
Neurofibrillary tangles
People live an average of _____ years after diagnosis of AD.
8-10 years
What is the usual cause of delirium?
Underlying physical illness
Progressive (permanent) or reversible (potentially)?
Delirium
Reversible (potentially)
T/F Alcoholic dementias can coexist with AD and multi-infarct.
True
Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things.
Agnosia
Adult presents with deficits in memory or in other cognitive functions without significant impact on daily functioning.
Mild Cognitive Impairment
50% of those with mental status change, with the etiology of depression, develop dementia over the next _____ years.
5
Progressive (permanent) or reversible (potentially)?
Alcoholic dementias
Progressive (permanent)
Inability to perform particular purposive actions.
Apraxia
Neuropathological hallmarks (_____) are diagnostic of AD.
Amyloid plaques
Early, mid, or late stage AD?
Recent and remote memory loss, restlessness, perseveration, loss of impulse control, and increased aphasia.
Mid Stage
A speech disorder in which a person has trouble saying what he or she wants to say correctly and consistently.
Verbal Apraxia
What deficiency causes alcohol-induced pellagra?
Niacin and/or tryptophan
Patients with _____ are six times more likely to get dementia.
Parkinson’s Disease
What 5 meds can cause reversible dementia?
- H2RAs
- Antidepressants
- Anti-anxiety agents
- Major tranquilizers
- Cardiac meds