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What are the 2 main types of cognitive disorders?

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Delirium and dementia

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What are the symptoms of tertiary syphillis? (4)

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Tremor, EPS, frontal dizziness, sluggish pupillary reflex

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How can tertiary syphillis be diagnosed?

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VDRL test (venereal disease research lab) test

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Difference b/w delirium and dementia?

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Delirium = waxing and waning change in pt’s level of consciousness

Dementia = impairment of memory and other cognitive fxs (language, behavior, personality) WITHOUT alteration in level of consciousness

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What are some other terms that refer to delirium? (5)

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  1. Encephalopathy
  2. Acute organic brain syndrome
  3. Acute confusional state
  4. Acute toxic psychosis
  5. ICU psychosis
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What are causes of delirium? AEIOU TIPS

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  • Alcohol/drug toxicity or withdrawal
  • Electrolyte abnormality
  • Iatrogenic (ex. anticholinergics, benzo, antiepileptics, blood pressure meds, insulin, abx, antiparkinsonians)
  • Oxygen hypoxia (bleeding, central venous, pulmonary)
  • Uremia/hepatic encephalopathy
  • Trauma
  • Infection
  • Poisons
  • Seizures (postictal), Stroke
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What are the two typical symptoms of delirium?

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Visual hallucinations (perceptual disturbance) and short attention span

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What is the most common finding in delirium?

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Impairment in recent memory

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What is the difference in EEG in delirium and dementia?

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Delirium = EEG changes (fast waves or generalized slowing) 
Dementia = no EEG changes
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What is the most common form of dementia?

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Alzheimer’s (50-70%)

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What’s the 2nd most common form of dementia?

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Vascular dementia (15-25%)

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What should you do if a pt presents w/ dementia but has a normal CT scan?

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Order complete metabolic panel and MRI

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What is dementia with stepwise increase in severity + focal neurological signs?

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Multi-infarct dementia

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What is dementia + cogwheel rigidity + resting tremor?

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Lewy body dementia or Parkinson

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Dementia + gait apraxia + urinary incontinence + dilated cerebral ventricles?

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Normal pressure hydrocephalus

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Dementia + obesity + coarse hair + constipation + cold intolerance?

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Hypothyroidism

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Dementia + diminished position and vibration sensation + megaloblast on CBC?

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Vit B12 deficiency

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Dementia + tremor + abnormal LFTs + Kayser-Fleischer rings?

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Wilson disease

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Dementia + diminished position and vibration sensation + Argyll Robertson Pupils (Accommodation Response Present, response to light absent)

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Neurosyphilis

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What is considered dysfunction on mini-mental state exam?

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Less than 25 (30 is perfect score)

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What is the diff. b/w delirium and dementia in terms of symptoms throughout the day?

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Delirium = symptoms fluctuate (often worse at night) 
Dementia = symptoms stable throughout day
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What is the risk factor for a 1st deg relative of an Alzheimer’s pt to get Alzheimer’s?

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4fold increase

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What is the molecule that is reduced in Alzheimer’s?

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Ach (due to loss of noradrenergic neurons in the basal ceruleus and loss of choline acetyltransferase - required for ach synthesis)

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What are the Alzheimer genes (3)?

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Presenelin 1, Presenelin 2, APP (amyloid precursor protein)

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What % of cases of Alzheimer’s are due to genetic abnormalities?

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5%

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What is the major susceptibility gene in Alzheimer

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Apolipoprotein e4 (APOe4) 
- homozygous have 50-90% chance of developing dementia by age 85
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What other conditions have senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles? (2)

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Down syndrome and normal aging

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What is the amyloid cascade hypothesis?

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Excess of AB peptides (either by overproduction or diminished clearance)

29
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What postmortem finding correlates with severity of dementia?

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Neuritic plaques (NOT neurofibrillary tangles)

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What pharmacotherapy can be used with mild-moderate Alzheimer disease?

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Cholinesterase inhibitors

ex. donepezil (Aricept), Tacrine (Cognex), rivastigmine (Exelon), galantamine (Razadyne)

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What pharmacotherapy can be used with moderate-severe Alzheimer disease?

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NMDA antagonists

ex. Memantine (Namenda)

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What is a typical finding on CT of a pt w/ vascular dementia?

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Multiple small lacunar infarcts (small vessel disease)

33
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A stroke to which area of the brain can lead to symptoms of schiz, BP1 disorder, and depression?

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Frontal lobe

34
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What is the gender prevalence of vascular dementia?

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M>W (2 times)

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What are 4 risk factors for vascular dementia?

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  1. Stroke
  2. DM
  3. HTN
  4. APOe4
36
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Which dementia shows “step-wise” loss of function?

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Vascular dementia (as microinfarcts build up)

37
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What is the treatment for vascular dementia?

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No cure or truly effective tx

  • cholinesterase inhibitors sometimes successful
  • antiHTNs to prevent onset of vascular dementia
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What is the pathogenesis of Lewy Body dementia?

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Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites (pathologic aggregation of alpha-synuclein) in the brain

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What is the primary brain location of Lewy Body dementia?

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Basal ganglia

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What are core features of Lewy body dementia? (4)

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Waxing and waning
Parkinsonism
Visual hallucinations
Sensitivity to neuroleptics

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What is the diff. b/w Lewy body dementia and Parkinson disease dementia?

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Lewy body = onset of dementia within 12 months of parkinsonism symptoms

Parkinson disease dementia = onset of dementia AFTER 12 months of parkinsonism symptoms

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Which is more closely linked to the clinical symptoms of lewy body dementia? Lewy neurites vs. Lewy bodies?

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Lewy neurites

43
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What tx can be used for lewy body dementia to help with visual hallucinations?

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Cholinesterase inhibitors

44
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How does psychostimulants, levodopa/carbidopa, and dopamine agonists help pts with lewy body dementia?

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Helps improve cognition, apathy and psychomotor slowing

45
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What is the progression of pick disease (frontotemporal dementia) compared to Alzheimer?

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More rapid progression to death

46
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Where is the gene mutation found in familial pick disease?

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Progranulin or MAPT gene

47
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What is the typical age presentation of pick disease?

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45-65 yo

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What is the brain pathology of pick disease?

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  • Marked atrophy of the frontal and temporal lobes

- Neuronal loss, microvacuolization, and astrocytic gliosis in cortical layer II

49
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What are some clinical manifestations of pick disease?

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  • profound changes in personality and social conduct
  • disinhibited verbal, physical, and sexual behavior
  • Echolalia, overeating, oral exploration of inanimate objects
  • lack of emotional warmth, empathy, or sympathy
  • cognitive deficits in attention, abstraction, planning, and problem solving
  • memory, language, and spatial fxs well preserved
50
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How does anticholinergic and antidepressants help in pts with pick disease?

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Helps improve behavioral symptoms but not cognition

51
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What are the risk factors for HIV associated dementia? (3)

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  • duration of illness
  • low CD4
  • high viral loads
52
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What are the movement disorders seen in Huntington?

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  • choreiform movements (dancelike)
53
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What are some psychiatric manifestations seen in Huntington? (3)

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  • depression, psychosis, alcoholism
54
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What is shown on MRI of Huntington pts?

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Caudate atrophy (sometimes cortical atrophy too)

55
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What is the pathology of Huntington?

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Trinucleotide repeat on short arm of chromosome 4

56
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What is lilliputian hallucination?

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Sensation that objects appear very small

57
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What brain structure is affected in Parkinson disease?

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Substantia nigra (neuronal loss)

58
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What % of Parkinson pts develop dementia?

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30-40%

59
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What is the pathogenesis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? (CJD)

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Accumulation of abnormal forms of prions (proteinaceous infectious particles that are normally expressed by healthy neurons)

60
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What is the definitive dx of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

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Pathological demonstration of spongiform changes in brain tissue (brain bx)

61
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What are some clinical features of CJD? (5)

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  • Myoclonus (sudden spasms of muscles)
  • Cortical blindness
  • Ataxia, pyramidal signs, EPS
  • Muscle atrophy
  • Mutism
62
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What are early signs of CJD? (3)

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Personality changes, immature behavior, paranoia

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What is the progression of CJD?

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Rapid progression to stupor, coma, death (from months to few yrs)

64
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What are some other prion diseases? (4)

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  • kuru
  • Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome
  • fatal familial insomnia
  • bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease)
65
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What are the 3 symptoms of NPH (normal pressure hydrocephalus)?

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3Ws

  • wobbly = gait disturbance
  • wet = urinary incontinence
  • wacky = dementia
66
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What is the brain findings of NPH?

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Enlarged ventricles w/ increased CSF pressure

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