7.1 Cognition and Dementia

Question 1

located near the modality they serve (vision, sensory, motor), unimodal

Answer 1

first order association cortex

Question 2

inputs from several modalities

Answer 2

multimodal association areas

Question 3

decisions and executive function

Answer 3

anterior association area

Question 4

integrates sensory input

Answer 4

posterior association area

Question 5

spatial recognition, relationships

Answer 5

dorsal perceptual path

Question 6

object recognition, faces

Answer 6

ventral perceptual path

Question 7

normal score is 30 points, not great for non-dominant hemisphere (patterns) and executive

Answer 7

mental status exam

Question 8

aphasia, affects Broca’s or Wernicke’s areas or surrounding cortex

Answer 8

focal language encephalopathy

Question 9

chronic cell death (idiopathic), commonly bilateral

Answer 9

degenerative focal encephalopathy

Question 10

several areas affected, alzheimers

Answer 10

diffuse encephalopathy

Question 11

semantic area, decodes words

Answer 11

Wernicke’s

Question 12

fluent speech (nonsense), can’t understand commands

Answer 12

wernicke’s aphasia

Question 13

surrounding cortex damage, fluent speech and repetition, poor understanding

Answer 13

transcortical sensory aphasia

Question 14

converts intent into words

Answer 14

broca’s area

Question 15

non fluent speech, can’t repeat, intact understanding of words

Answer 15

broca’s aphasia

Question 16

intact understanding and repeat, not fluent

Answer 16

transcortical motor

Question 17

connection b/w broca’s and wenicke’s areas, fluent speech, intact understanding but can’t repeat

Answer 17

conduction aphasia

Question 18

unable to read but can write, disconnection of visual cortex to Wernicke’s area, PCA stroke

Answer 18

alexia without agraphia

Question 19

multiple cognitive deficits that are aquired and persistent

Answer 19

dementia

Question 20

AD, vascual, PD, Lewy body disease

Answer 20

most common causes of dementia

Question 21

posterior cortical effects, no motor problems early

Answer 21

alzheimer’s

Question 22

subcortical effects, motor and cognitive problems

Answer 22

parkinson’s

Question 23

dys-executive, change in personality, inappropriate with fully intact memory, language, frontal dementia

Answer 23

Pick’s disease