alzheimers Flashcards

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w

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4 A’S of alzhemiers

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AMNESIA (recent first)
APATHY
AGNOSIA
APRAXIA

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3
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what sort of drugs can be used to help dementia

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acholinesterase inhibtors ending in ‘mine’
rivastigmine

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4
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most common types of dementia

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  1. lewy body
  2. vascular
  3. lewy body
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lewy body

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asscoiated with hallucinations
classically of small creatures/children/figures (Lilliputian bodies.)

assoc of features of parkinsoniasm

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6
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which dementia is a rf with repetitive head injuries

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fronto temporal

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