Dementia

Question 1

What are the four types of dementia?

Answer 1

• Dementia with lewy bodies
• Frontotemporal dementia
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Vascular dementia

Question 2

What are the hallmark features of DLB?

Answer 2

include at least 2
of the following:

• recurrent visual hallucination
• cognitive fluctuations
• spontaneous extrapyramidal signs.

Question 3

What are the hallmark features of FTD?

Answer 3

Prominent early symptoms include progressive coarsening of personality, social behaviour, self-regulation (of emotions, drives, and behaviour), and language

typically appear in mid-life,

Question 4

What are the hallmark features of AD?

Answer 4

insidious onset and progressive but slow decline, hallmark symptoms are memory loss, impairment of daily activities, and neurobehavioural abnormalities

Question 5

What are the hallmark features of VD?

Answer 5

The executive functions of the brain such as planning are more prominently affected than memory. Motor and mood changes are often seen early.

Question 6

What are DDx for each dementia?

Answer 6

-they are all DDx for each other plus
-DLB: Parkinsons, Prion disorders
-FTD: Bipolar, OCD, hyperthyroidism, brain tumour
-AD:
-delirium
-depression
VD:
-depression