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Dementia Flashcards

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What is dementia?

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a progressive and largely irreversible syndrome that is characterised by a widespread impairment of mental function

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Disease o the medial temporal lobe, hippocampus, amygdala and limbic system lead to what?

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disorders in memory and hallucinations

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What is disease of the temporal neocortex associated with?

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receptive dysphasia and automatisms

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Disease of the parietal lobe leads to what?

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impairment of visuospatial skills and integration of sensory inputs, leading to sensory agnosias and apraxias

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What does disease of the frontal lobes lead to?

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abnormalities in several behavioural domains - impairment of judgement, abstract reasoning, strategic planning, emotional restraint and control of appetite

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What does disease of the occipital lobe lead to?

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failure of visual sensory systems

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7
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Name 4 types of neurodegenerative dementias

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  • Alzheimer’s
  • Lewy Body
  • Frontotemporal
  • Huntington’s disease
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Which type of neurodegenerative dementia is Parkinson’s disease associated with?

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Lewy body dementia

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9
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Can treatment cure vascular dementia?

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no, but treatment can slow down progression

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How quickly does prion disease progress?

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rapid progression (untreatable) - patients often die within 2-3 months of presentation

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What are the classic presentations of cortical dementia?

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higher cortical abnormalities - dysphasia, agnosia, apraxia

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Is Alzheimer’s cortical or sub-cortical?

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cortical

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How would subcortical dementia classically present?

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apathetic, forgetful and slow, associated with other neurological signs and movement disorders

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Which neurodegenerative diseases are associated with synucleinopathies?

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  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Dementia with Lewy Bodies
  • MSA
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Which neurodegenerative diseases are associated with ubiqionopathies?

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  • MND and MND/dementia

- semantic dementia

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What is the triad of symptoms presenting in normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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  1. dementia
  2. gait disturbance
  3. urinary incontinence
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How does transmissible spongiform encephalopathies present under a microscope?

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tissue looks like a sponge

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What would be noticeable in an MRI of someone with sporadic CJD?

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non-specific changes in basal ganglia

19
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What is the characteristic EEG in a patient with CJD?

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triphasic waves on repeat testing

20
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What is a ‘pulvinar sign’?

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characteristic abnormality seen in the posterior thalamic region

21
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What disease is a pulvinar sign highly sensitive and specific for?

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variant CJD

22
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What would you use to treat autoimmune encephalitis?

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steroids

23
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Define cognition

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sum of brain function which allows us to integrate in the environment

24
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What are amyloid proteins?

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insoluble fibrous proteins aggregates sharing specific structural traits

25
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What are tau proteins?

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a group of proteins that stabilise microtubules in neurons

26
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How many isoforms of tau proteins are there?>

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6

27
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What is ubiquitin?

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a small regulatory protein that has been found in almost all cells of eukaryotic organisms

28
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What is the function of ubiquitin?

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directs proteins to compartments in the cells and can attach to proteins and label them for destruction

29
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What is the function of the limbic system?

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arousal, emotion, motivation, attention and memory

30
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Describe a simple microcircuit in the brain

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neuron > synapse > neurotransmitter > action potential

31
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What are the two functional classifications of neurodegenerative disorders?

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cognitive (AD) and movement (PD)

32
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which protein can produce Lewy bodies when mutated?

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alpha-synuclein

33
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What is oxidative stress?

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imbalance in cell due to excess oxygen free radicals (causes neuronal cell death)

34
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what is a normal brain weight? What would you expect in someone with AD?

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1200-1400 g

AD: 900-1100g

35
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In which areas would you expect to see most atrophy in the brain in AD?

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  • hippocampus
  • temporal lobe
  • parietal lobe
  • frontal lobe
  • cingulate gyrus
36
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what does atrophy in deep white matter cause?

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ventricular dilation

37
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What skills will someone lose in significant hippocampal atrophy?

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inability to learn new things and to retain new facts

38
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Do tangles or plaques show correlation to clinical severity?

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tangles

39
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How many Braak and Braak stages are there?

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6

40
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Where would the most significant atrophy be seen in dementia with Lewy body?

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amygdala, cingulate gyrus, temporal, parietal and frontal lobes

41
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What is the most striking feature seen in a brain with Lewy bodies?

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pale substantia nigra

42
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What is the pathology of Binswanger’s disease?

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blood vessels cause microinfarction of the white matter

43
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What is Pick’s disease?

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frontotemporal dementia

44
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In Pick’s disease, what would you expect to see under the microscope?

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ballooned neurones due to them being tau +ve and ubiquitin +ve

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