Behavioural neuroscience Flashcards
What do you first do in a routine assessment of cognitive function
History of cognitive deficit, educational and occupational history
IF you thing there’s a cognitive impairment, do a current mental state exam
What is involved in a Current Mental State assessment
Level of conscious awareness, attention, orientation in time and space
Memory
Visuospatial/Body image
Language
Executive/ ‘frontal’ functions
Why is MoCA used more than MMSE
because it doesn’t have copyright issues
What assessment s are used for dementia and what does it also do
ACE 3
-Allows you to distinguish between two types of dementia
What assessments are used for telephone interview
TICS
Does depression affect your cognitive score
Yes
are raw scores used in test interpretation
What are used instead
Rarely
Standardised scores based on normal distribution usually by age and level of education
What is an average IQ
90-109
Difference in early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Alzheimers- prominent impairment of episodic memory, visuospatial impairment
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration- prominent dysexetutive syndrome, coarsening of personality
When are Neuropsychological tests not likely to be helpful or appropriate
Recently bereaved
Florid psychosis
Patient severely or terminally ill
Patient has systemic infection
