Cognition & Dementia Flashcards
“Say my name” activates
Selective attention
Areas involved in memory
Thalamus, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex
Wernicke’s aphasia characterized by
Ability to produce speech with inability to comprehend
Word salad
A lesion to which area would result in left hemispatial neglect
Right parietal cortex
Which hemisphere is more dominant in language control
Left (Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area)
Ability to recall facts from the past is what memory
Declarative memory
3 steps of learning and memory
Encoding, storage, retrieval
Executive function best assessed with which test
Letter-number sequencing
Major conclusion of Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Normal aging entails changes in some, but not all cognitive functions
What memory storage problems are a part of normal aging
Retrieval
What helps preserve cognitive function and protect against brain aging
Exercise, diet, and cognitive reserve
Dementia is what deficits
Decline in function and cause functional impairments
Where are plaques and tangles found on neurons
Plaques = outside
Tangles = inside
Which Alzheimer’s biomarker changes earliest in the course of the disease
Amyloid plaques
