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What are cognitive disorders

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Cognitive function is impaired via some BIOLOGICAL cause

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Where are many of the cognitive disorders located in the DSM-5, and is that used to diagnosis these people

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Mild or mafor neurocognitive disorder with specific symptoms, No because it’s more MEDICAL

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What is mild neurocognitive disorder

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Cognitive decline, concern, impairment, DOES NOT interfere with capacity for independence

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What is Major neurocognitive disorder

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Signigicant decline, concer, substantial impairment, INTERFERES with independenceQh

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wHAT IS aLZHEIMER’S DISEASE

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PROGRESSIVE losse of memory and intellectual functiong, personality changes, and death

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How many people does alzheimer’s disease affect over age 65

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10%

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Is Alzheimer’s disease a natural consequence of aging

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No

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Here are some notes about Alzheimer’s disease

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Memories are identy, no cure, dagerous, different roles, emotional hard, hostal, US is independent, expensive, sandwich generation

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What is the DSM criteria for Alzheimer’s disease

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Gradual progression of impaitment in cognitive domains, not better explained by other things

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What is the difference between Probable Alzheimer’s disease and possible Alzheimer’s disease

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Probable: Family history
Possible: NO family history

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Does Alzheimer’s disease have a strong genetic basis

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Yes

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What are the possible biological causes of Alzheimer’s disease

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Build up of BETA AMYLOID and TAU PROTEINS

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Are the hypothesis for Alzheimer’s disease did called into question, why

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yES BECAUSE THEY MAY BE FRAUDULANT

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Why is disgnosis of alzheimer’s disease difficult

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Intial symptoms are NORMAL aging, SCARED to seek diagnosis, no conclusive diagnostic TEST

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What are the few tests that can be done to recognise Alzheimer’s

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Brain scans, blood tests for biomarkers

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Can the blood tests predict dementia

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No

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Why is alzheimer’s disease hard to treat

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By the time they are symptomatic that are fairly ADVANCED

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Does onset and progression cary for pts with Alzheimer’s

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Yes

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How many people get alzheimer’s disease before 65

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1%

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What can change the speed of progess of alzheimer’s disease

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Level of cognitive activity throughout adulthood

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What do most treatments of Alzheimer’s try to do

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Slow the progress of the disease

22
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What drugs can help to slow down progress of dementia

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Acetylcholine, anti-inflammatory

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Where does most traumatic brain injuries happen (TBI)

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Military and sports

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What sports are most at risk for TBI

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Football, hockey, soccor headers

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What are the two types of concussive events

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Single and repeated

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What are the symptoms of TBI

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amnesia, language problems, depression

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What can TBI lead to

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chronic traumative encephalopathy (CTE)

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What is brain fog

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Common symptom of long covid, problems with memory, function, fatigue

29
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What does brain fog from long covid mean

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Naural inflammtion and inflammations role in cognitive disorder

30
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What strands where the strongest for brain fog from long covid

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The first years, 7 point IQ drop

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What is aphasia

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Inability to produce or comprehend language

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What is the most common cause of aphasi

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stroke or brain injury

33
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What is blobal aphasia

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produce little language and can barley understand anything

34
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What is broca’s aphasia

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Impaiment in production of speech

35
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What is wernicke’s aphasia

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Fluent but disorganized output

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What is agnosia

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Inability to recognize and indentify objects

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What is prosopagnosia

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face bildness

38
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What is amnestic disorders

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Disturbances of memory function from a BIOLOGICAL cause

39
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Why is amnestic disorders different than dissociative

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Bc dissociative is psychological

40
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Is memory essential to life

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Yes

41
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What are the categories of amnestic disorders

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Anter/retrograde

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What is anterodrage

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Can’t make NEW memories

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What is retrograde

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Loss of PAST memories

44
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What is the most common form of amnestic disorders

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Anterograde

45
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What are the two different types of memories

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Eprisodic and proxedural

46
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What is edpisodic memory

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Moments in our lives

47
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What is procedural memory

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Automatic things

48
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What type of memory is more likely to be lost

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Episodic

49
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What are some causes of amnestic disorders

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Hypoxia, infarction, Korsakoff’s

50
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What is korsakoff’s syndrome

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Thiamine deficiency in ALCOHOLISM

51
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Who is Clive waring

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Has both profound antero/retrograde amnesia

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