Ch. 11 Neurocognitive Disorders

Question 1

What is delirium caused by?

Answer 1

• use of toxic substances and medical conditions

- could be caused by a high-grade fever

Question 2

What is the first and most prominent Sx to emerge with NCD?

Answer 2

Memory impairment

Question 3

What is Alzheimer’s caused by (in the brain)?

Answer 3

neurofibrillary tangles and beta-amyloid plaques

Question 4

What is APP?

Answer 4

• benign substance that generally gets washed away from the brain and body
• becomes plaque in AD

Question 5

Vascular NCD

Answer 5

Caused when blood cannot get to the brain

• caused by cerebral vascular strokes
• perseverate behaviors
• difficulty with language fluency

Question 6

In the brain of someone with AD, the __________ have been destroyed

Answer 6

cholinergic tracts

Question 7

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)

Answer 7

clinical state where people are memory impaired but do not meet the criteria for dementia

Question 8

Lewy bodies are microscopic spherical neuronal inclusion bodies within the ______

Answer 8

cytoplasm

Question 9

ACh

Answer 9

• NT responsible for cognitive Sx in AD

- reduced due to destruction of cholingeric tracts

Question 10

Frontotemporal NCD

Answer 10

• caused by nerve cell loss in frontal and temporal lobes
• changes in personality - no empathy and sympathy
• poor hygiene
• decreases independence with ADLs
• aphasia

Question 11

Lewy Body NCD

Answer 11

• might cause visual hallucinations
• might cause changes in alertness and attention
• might cause parkinsonian tremors