Ch. 15 NCDS

Question 1

define neurocognitive disorder

Answer 1

experiencing a significant decline in at least one area of cognitive functioning:
memory
attention
visual perception
planning
decision-making
language ability
social awareness

Question 2

major NCD

Answer 2

cognitive decline is substantial and significantly interferes with the ability to be independent

Question 3

mild NCD

Answer 3

cognitive decline is modest and doesn’t interfere with the ability to be independent

Question 4

senile plaques

Answer 4

form in spaces between neurons and kill them, causing alzheimer’s

Question 5

neurofibrillary tangles

Answer 5

twisted protein fibers that kill neurons, causing alzheimer’s

Question 6

genetic cause of early onset Alzheimers

Answer 6

abnormalities in genes responsible for beta-APP and presenilin protein

Question 7

genetic cause of late onset Alzheimers

Answer 7

ApoE gene, genes promote abnormal activity of tau proteins

Question 8

short term memory

Answer 8

prefrontal cortex

Question 9

long term memory

Answer 9

hippocampus

Question 10

Alzheimers involves improper functioning of one or more of these

Answer 10

hippocampus
amygdala
thalamus
hypothalamus

Question 11

biochemical causes of Alzheimers

Answer 11

disturbance of
acetylcholine
glutamate
RNA
calcium

Question 12

picks disease

Answer 12

affects the frontal and temporal lobe, decision making

Question 13

creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Answer 13

spasms of body caused by prions

Question 14

Huntington disease

Answer 14

an inherited disease, memory problems, personality changes, mood difficulties, severe spasms, and twitching

Question 15

Parkinson’s disease

Answer 15

tremors, rigidity, unsteadiness

Question 16

drug treatment of alzheimers

Answer 16

affects acetylcholine and glutamate, benefits are limited and only causes slight improvement, best for people in early to mild stages

Question 17

expressive aphasia

Answer 17

Broca’s area, difficulty speaking

Question 18

receptive aphasia

Answer 18

Wernicke area, difficulty with word comprehension

Question 19

apraxia

Answer 19

cannot carry out motor activities despite intact motor functioning

Question 20

agnosia

Answer 20

inability to recognize objects

Question 21

prevention of alzheimers

Answer 21

mental exercising
physical exercising
high linguistic complexity
reducing risk factors