Cognitive Disorders

Question 0

Dementia

Answer 0

Multiple cognitive deficits to include memory impairment. Presence of aphasia, agnosia, apraxia, or disturbance in executive functioning.

Question 1

Delirium

Answer 1

A disturbance of consciousness lasting hours to days.

Question 2

Aphasia

Answer 2

Loss of ability to produce spoken or often written language coherently.

Question 3

Apraxia

Answer 3

Inability to carry out motor activities dispite intact motor functioning.

Question 4

Agnosia

Answer 4

Inability to recognize objects in spite of intact sensory functions.

Question 5

Executive functioning

Answer 5

The ability to think abstractly, to plan and to organize.

Question 6

Huntington’s disease

Answer 6

Nerve cells in the brain break down.

Question 7

Cerebrovascular disease

Answer 7

Blood in the brain.

Question 8

Amnestic disorder

Answer 8

Impaired ability to learn new information or recall past events or previously learned information. Deficit is most apparent with tasks that require spontaneous recall.

Question 9

Dementia Alzheimer’s type

Answer 9

The course is characterized by a gradual onset and continuous cognitive decline.

Question 10

Vascular dementia

Answer 10

Symptoms and laboratory evidence indicative of cerebrovascular diseases that are judged to be etiologically related to the disturbance.