3d. Cortical dementias - Begrippen omgekeerd

Question 1

What does this refer to?

A disturbance in attention and awareness with a sudden onset, compared to dementia that has a gradual onset. Important: it tends to fluctuate in severity during the day.

Answer 1

Delirium

Question 2

To which dementia are the APP gene and PSEN gene related to?

Answer 2

Alzheimer

Question 3

What does this refer to?

When copying an image, they draw within the figure. You can see this in people with AD, and for example not in depressed people.

Answer 3

Closing in

Question 4

Which PPA is this?

Symptoms

1. Agrammatism: difficulties with grammer
2. Effortful, halting speech: slow and with a lot of hesitation
3. Impaired comprehension of complex sentences

Spared

1. Single-word comprehension
2. Spared object knowledge

Answer 4

PPA-non fluent

Question 5

Which PPA is this?

Symptoms

1. Difficulties with confrontation naming
2. Difficulties with single-word comprehension
3. Impaired object knowledge: memory of objects is gone
4. Surface dyslexia/dysgraphia: problems with reading/writing

Spared

1. Repetition: they can repeat things
2. Speech production: grammar and motor speech is in touch

Answer 5

Semantic dementia

Question 6

Which PPA is this?

Symptoms

1. Impaired single-word retrieval in spontaneous speech, and naming
2. Impaired repetition of sentences and names
3. Phonologic speech errors (=klanken)

Spared

1. Single-word comprehension
2. Object knowledge
3. Motor speech

Answer 6

Logopenic PA