Dementia

Question 1

Criteria 1

Answer 1

Multiple cognitive deficits manisfested by memory impairment plus at least one of the following disturbances: aphasia (comprehension and formulation of language), apraxia (impaired movement), agnosia (inability to interpret sensations), or disturbance in executive function.

Question 2

Criteria 2

Answer 2

Cognitive deficits cause significant impariment in function

Question 3

Criteria 3

Answer 3

Dementia is not given if deficits occur during the course of delirium

Question 4

Criteria 4

Answer 4

There is evidence that symptoms are due to a general medical condition and/or effects of medication or other substance.

Question 5

Deficits in functioning

Answer 5

Anterograde (difficulty acquiring info) and retrograde (difficulty recalling info). Anterograde is more evident, usually, in beginning of disorder.

Question 6

Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type

Answer 6

• Most common
• Graual onset of symptoms.
• Slow progressive decline in congnitive funcitoning.
• 3 stages