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1b Dementia Flashcards

1
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What is the most commonest form of dementia?

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Alzheimers Disease

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What is Dementia?

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A fatal neurodegenerative disorder which is characterised by progressive cognitive, social and functional impairment

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What has the most modest symptomatic benefit in early stages?

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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

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What two forms of dementia are most likely to occur together?

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Vascular and Alzheimers

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5
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What are the stages of dementia on the continuum scale?

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Preclinical -> MCI -> Dementia

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Which of B1, B6 and B12 deficiencies can particularly reduce cognitive function?

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B12

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What occurs in the preclinical stage of declining cognitive function?

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Deterioration of someone’s cellular function without clinical manifestation

Eg. Increase in Amyloid
Increase in Tau B
Neuroinflammation

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Give examples of some of the endocrine causes of dementia?

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Hypothyroidism - thyroid hormones induce changes in amyloid precursor processing or deposition of amyloid-beta

Cushing’s

Addison’s

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9
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Why is it hard to accurately diagnose dementia in clinic?

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The disease follows a heterogenous course

In old age the disease presentation is of multiple co-morbidities

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Are younger patients or older patients more typical in dementia?

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Younger patients are more typical

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Why is it harder to diagnose Dementia with older aged patients?

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In old age the disease presentation includes a lot of different co-morbidities

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What does the clinical diagnosis of Dementia lie most in?

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History Taking

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Dementia risk factors?

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Ageing

Brain trauma

Oral health

Genetic factors

Midlife obesity

Reduced physical activity

Infections or systemic inflammation

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14
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What aspect of memory is impaired in dementia?

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Short term memory

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What is the checklist of things to ask patients and collateral in the interview?

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Memory

Language - communicate how they feel and for diagnosis

Numerical skills - calculating finances and pay bills

Executive skills

Visuospatial skills - acidentally backing into other people’s cars

Neglect phenomena

Visual perception

Route finding and landmark identification

Personality and social conduct - knowing personality before symptoms start

Sexual behaviour - as alzheimers and temporal dementia develop they feel less-inhibited

Eating

Mood

Motivation/Apathy

Anxiety/Agitation

Delusions

Activities of daily living

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Why is it important for physicians to interview collateral as well as the patient?

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Typically patients will deny any symptoms and say that their decline is normal for someone of their age

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What is the definition of dementia?

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Severe loss of memory and cognitive abilities which leads to impaired daily function (regardless of the underlying cause)

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18
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Which examination should be done for dementia?

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Neurological Mental State

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19
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Which investigations should you do for Dementia?

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Neuropsychology
Bloods
MRI
PET

20
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When is a PET scan useful to conduct?

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When the patient is not likely to have Alzheimer’s disease but a scan is still needed to rule it out

21
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What is a straightforward cognitive test example?

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MMSE (Mini mental state examination) and ACE III (Addenbrooke’s cognitive examination)

22
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What would you take from bloods in an investigation of dementia?

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Full blood count
Inflammatory markers
Thyroid function
Biochemistry and renal function
Glucose
B12 and folate
Clotting factors

23
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Which conditions would you test for in the bloods of a dementia patient to rule them out?

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Syphilis serology

HIV

Caeruloplasmin

24
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Describe changes which you would see on a sMRI of a patient with dementia?

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  1. Narrow gyri and wider sulci
  2. Dilated / enlarged ventricles
  3. Tissue replaced with CSF
  4. Medio-temporal volume loss, Hippocampal volume loss, cerebro-cortical atrophy
25
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Which area which has a rich ACh supply will you find extensive neurone loss?

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nucleus basalis of Meynert (rich in ACh) - therefore lack of supply to the hippocampus, amygdala and neocortex

26
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Which chemicals are neuropathic with dementia?

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Amyloid and Tau

27
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How do you measure amyloid and tau?

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Florbetapir in Vivo is given to a cannulated patient and this is a contrast to light up areas in brain with tau and amyloid

28
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What are the differentials for a diagnosis of Dementia?

A

Alzhemiers
Vascular
Lewy Body
FTD
Depression
Delirium
None

29
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What are the management options for dementia?

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Acetylchoinesterase inhibitors
Watch and wait
Treating behavioural and psychological symptoms
OT/Social services
Specialist therapies

30
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How does amyloid affect dementia?

A

It is part of the primary event that causes changes in brain structure and specifically, cognition lags

31
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Ideally how long should you see successive deterioration in order to be confident in a diagnosis of dementia?

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6 months - 2 years

32
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What is the presentation of Alzheimers described as?

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Subtle and insidious with amnestic and non-amnestic presentations

33
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What is the pattern of decline in vascular dementia?

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Step wise deterioration

34
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What is the development of vascular dementia associated with?

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CVD

35
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What are some symptoms associated with Lewy Body Dementia?

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Visual Hallucinations
CI before/within 1 year of Parkinsons like symptoms
Fluctuating cognition

36
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What symptoms are typical of fronto-temporal dementia?

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Semantic dementia therefore progressive non-fluent (expressive) aphasia

37
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What is the head turning sign?

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Ask the patient a questions and the patient turns to face their partner as they are unsure of the answer / dont know or need verification

38
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What is responsible for episodic memory?

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Dependent on medial temporal lobes including the hippocampus

39
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Features on a scan that are indicative of Dementia?

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Narrowed gyri

Hippocampal atrophy

Dilated lateral ventricles

40
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Which dementia typically involves initial episodic memory deficits secondary to dysfunction of medial temporal lobe structures (entorhinal cortex and hippocampus)?

A

Alzheimers

41
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What is the pattern of biomarker decline in alzheimers?

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As the disease stage progresses:

First, Amyloid
Tau
Changes to brain structures
Lastly, Cognition

42
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What are some typical signs / symptoms of Lewy Body Dementia?

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High Risk of Falls
Visual Hallucinations - Generally people / animals
REM Sleep Disorder
Associated with fluctuating Cognition
Development of Parkinsons like symptoms

43
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What is Lewy body dementia generally caused by?

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The aggregation of alpha synuclein, leading to deposition of Lewy bodies and internal symptoms

44
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What are the radiological changes in dementia with Lewy Bodies?

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Preserved hippocampal volume and median-temporal volume

45
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What happens to the caudate and putamen in Lewy Body Dementia?

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Decreased availability of dopamine transporters in the caudate and putamen

46
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What radiological signs do patients with FTD show?

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Perisylvian volume loss
Volume loss in temporal lobes and frontal opercula

47
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What are some signs and symptoms of FTD?

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Increased behavioural disturbances
Agitation, Anger and Rudeness
Impaired Speech - dysfluent, agrammatic, paraphrasic errors, anomia (Unable to name everyday objects), neologisms (joining words together to make new words which do not exist)
Difficulty doing gesture
Obsessive Behaviours

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