Block5 Linton Dementia Flashcards
What is a disturbance of consciousness and cognitive changes that develop during a short time?
Delirium
What is characterized by several cognitive deficits including impaired memory?
Dementia
What involves only an impairment of memory without other impairments?
Amnestic Disorder
What disease has an underlying cognitive disorder? (this makes them more vulnerable to other parts of the disease)
Delirium
What is characterized by multiple cognitive defects including impairment in memory without impairment in “Consciousness”?
Dementia (however there is impairment in learning, memory, language, problem solving, orientation, perception, attention, concentration)
75% of dementia are made up of Alzheimer’s type and what other type?
Vascular disease
What Neurocognitive disease gets worse at night, has a normal EEG, and little autonomic dysfunction?
Dementia
What is the treatment Alzheimer disease to slow progression of cognitive loss?
Achase inhibitors and NMDA antagonists
Delirium vs. Dementia, which one is not really reversible?
Dementia
Delirium vs. Dementia, which one has a quick onset?
Delirium
Delirium vs. Dementia, which one has normal level of consciousness?
Dementia
Delirium vs. Dementia, which one does not have a reduced attention span?
Dementia
What neurocognitive disease is characterized by memory impairment in the absence of other significant cognitive impairments?
Amnestic Disorders
Amnesia disorder is caused by head trauma, stroke, and ________?
Thiamine Deficiency (look out for mamillary bodies and temporal lobe trauma)
What disease has little autonomic dysfunction, normal EEG, and a history of alcohol abuse?
Amnesia Disorder
What is the mild cognitive impairment “idea” that early Alzheimer’s Disease detection helps?
prevent damage to neurons are more likely to respond
What is a syndrome that is “predementia” phase of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Neurocognitive Disorder is not synonymous with DSM IV of what?
Dementia
In order for there to be a major neurocognitive decline disorder, what must there be?
Impairment in cognitive performance, does mess up daily activities
There is major or mild neurocognitive disorder in what disease?
How many cognitive domains are required to be impaired?
Alzheimer’s Disease
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What are two things that scream Alzheimer’s Disease?
decrease in IQ and disruption of normal life
Major Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder typically results from the occurrence of two or more?
Strokes
A minor vascular neurocognitive disorder is caused by what?
single stroke
Alzheimer vs. Vascular, which one is most common, 65% of dementia cases?
Alzheimer
Alzheimer vs. Vascular, which etiology features hypertension and a quick onset?
Vascular
What is depression that mimics neurocognitive disorder/dementia?
pseudodementia
What disease may be associated with complaints of memory impairment, difficulty thinking and concentrating, and an overall reduction in intellectual abilities? (we are not frontotemporal dementia here)
Major Depressive Disorder
Depression-related Cognitive Dysfunction vs. Neurocognitive Disorder/Dementia is figured out how?
Medical Exam, evaluation of the onset of the disturbance, the temporal sequence of depressive and cognitive symptoms, and family background
English: Depression is a quick onset, Dementia is declining over time.
What disorder can be seen via a bad EEG? This disease has rapid deterioration and myoclonis
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
Common sense: when doing a differential diagnosis with aging patients, what is a differential Diagnosis?
Normal aging, result in minor changes to the normal aging brain
Mild Neurocognitive and Major Neurocognitive deficits have what big differences?
Major Neurocognitive interferes in daily living, minor does not
How is the difference between normal cognition and mild cognition determined?
not sure, hard to tell the difference
What normally has an underlying cause and the goal is to reverse it?
Dementia
What disease causes personality changes in early states characterizes Pick Disease?
Dementia
What neurocognitive domain is evaluated attention, selective attention, divided attention is used to evaluate?
Complex Attention
What neurocognitive domain is planing, decision making, working memory, feedback/error utilization, overriding habits/inhibition, and cognitive flexability?
Executive Function
Immediate memory span and recent memory are what neurocognitive domain?
Learning and Memory
Expressive language, grammar syntax, receptive language are part of what neurocognitive domains?
Language
Visual perception, visuoconstructional, perceptual-motor, and praxis are part of what neurocognitive domains?
Perceptual Motor
What neurocognitive domain is recognition of emotions and theory of mind?
Social Cognition
