CH20: DEMENTIA

Question 1

persistent deterioration of intellectual or cognitive function with little or no disturbance of consciousness or perception (p. 452)

Answer 1

dementia

Question 2

intelligence as global definition (p. 452)

Answer 2

characterizes an individual’s behavior as a whole

Question 3

intelligence as an aggregate definition (p. 452)

Answer 3

composed of independent distinguishable cognitive abilities

Question 4

according to Tomlinson, lesions that involved more than ___ of tissue caused a moderate general reduction in performance esp speed and problem-solving (p. 454)

Answer 4

50ml

Question 5

percent of patients referred to a neurologic center with a question of dementia prove to have a potentially reversible psychiatric or metabolic disorder (p. 455)

Answer 5

10%

Question 6

percent of patients with MCI will be found to have later acquired Alzheimer disease (p. 456)

Answer 6

10-20%

Question 7

three dementias wherein memory is relatively spared (p. 457)

Answer 7

FTD, Primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia

Question 8

passive movements of the limbs encounter a fluctuating resistance or paratonia (p. 457)

Answer 8

gegenhalten

Question 9

what is usually spared in subcortical dementia (p. 458)

Answer 9

vocabulary, naming, praxis

Question 10

triad of korsakoff syndrome (wiki)

Answer 10

altered mental status, nystagmus, ataxia

Question 11

immediate recall localization (p. 463)

Answer 11

perisylvian cortex of dominant hemoisphere

Question 12

working memory localization (p. 463)

Answer 12

prefrontal cortex, medial temporal lobes, dorsomedial thalamus

Question 13

semantic memory localization (p. 463)

Answer 13

anterior inferior temporal lobes, frontal lobes

Question 14

episodic memory localization (p. 463)

Answer 14

association cortex

Question 15

procedural memory localization (p. 463)

Answer 15

premortor and motor cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum

Question 16

visual memory localization (p. 463)

Answer 16

occipital lobes

Question 17

subsumes what most persons consider to be memory and learning, that is able to retain and recount events that were consciously experienced by that person including time and general circumstances acquisition (p. 463)

Answer 17

explicit memory

Question 18

learning of the nature of the environment and factual knowledge (p. 463)

Answer 18

semantic memory

Question 19

learning of simple mechanical skills (p. 463)

Answer 19

procedural memory

Question 20

two structures of central importance to memory function(p. 464)

Answer 20

thalamus, hippocampal formation

Question 21

thalamus and hippocampus connection (p. 464)

Answer 21

mamillothalamic tract (tract of Vicq d’Azyr)

Question 22

septal nuclei connected to the hippocampus through (p. 464)

Answer 22

precommisural fornix

Question 23

septal nuclei connected to amygdala through (p. 464)

Answer 23

diagonal band

Question 24

Score above what in MMSE is normal (p. 469)

Answer 24

24/30