Common psych histories - memory loss Flashcards
1
Q
What would you want to ask about memory loss?
A
- Onset
- Short/long term
- Insight/concerns
- Functional levels - ADLs
- Risk assessment
- MMSE
2
Q
What psychiatric symptoms would you want to ask about in someone with memory loss?
A
- Psychosis
- Depression
- Insight
- Risk
3
Q
What general questions would you ask about on systemic enquiry in someone with memory loss?
A
Evidence of infection - UTI, Fever
4
Q
What features of memory loss would suggest alzheimers disease?
A
- Relentlessly progressive decline
- Disinhibition
- Dysphasia
- Dyspraxia
- Dysnomia
5
Q
What featues associated with memory loss would suggest vascular dementia?
A
- Stepwise decline
- CVS risk factors
- Preserved insight
6
Q
What features assocaited with memory loss would suggest lewy body dementia as a cause?
A
- Fluctuating dementia
- Visual hallucinations
- Parkinsonism
- Delerium like phase
7
Q
What psychiatric conditions can cause memory loss?
A
- Depression
- Delerium
8
Q
What are neurodegenerative causes of memory loss?
A
- Alzheimers
- Vascular dementia
- Lewy body dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- CJD
- Huntingtons
- MS
9
Q
What are psychiatric causes of memory loss?
A
- Depression
- Delerium
10
Q
What are neurological causes of memory loss?
A
- SOL
- Neurosyphilis
- Encephalitis
11
Q
What are non-neuropsychiatric causes of memory loss?
A
- Drugs + alcohol
- Vitamin deficiency
- Electrolyte imbalance
- Organ failure
- Endocrinopathis
- Autoimmune/paraneoplastic
- HIV
