Degenerative Neurologic Disorders

Question 1

Affects multiple cortical functions, calculation, learning capacity, language, and judgment resulting from death of neurons and/or the loss of communication

Answer 1

Dementia

Question 2

Cause of Dementia

Answer 2

Exact cause is Unknown but some of it is characterized by abnormal structures in the brain called Inclusions

Question 3

Give some clinical manifestations of Dementia

Answer 3

Amnesia
Aphasia
Agnosia
Apraxia
Disturbance in Executive Functioning
Personality Changes
Social Blunders

Question 4

A form of dementia characterized by progressive, irreversible deterioration of general intellectual functioning

Answer 4

Alzheimer’s Disease