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What is dementia?

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Chronic progressive disorder of mental processes due to brain injury/disease.

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Does the area of the brain affected have an effect on the presentation?

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Yes.

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How do frontal lobe (anterior) problems normally present?

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Behavioural changes.

  • impaired judgement, abstract reasoning, incontinence
  • e.g. hydrocephalus
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How do problems with the medial temporal lobe/hippocampus/amygdala/limbic system normally present?

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Memory disorder and hallucinations.

-e.g. Alzheimer’s

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How do temporal neocortex problems normally present?

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Receptive dyshphasia and automatisms.

-e.g. Alzheimer’s

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How do occipital lobe problems normally present?

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Failure of visual sensory systems.

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How do parietal lobe problems normally present?

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  • Visuospatial impairment

- Decreased integration of sensory inputs (agnosia, apraxia)

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Give some examples of neurodegenerative dementias. (4)

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  • Alzheimer’s
  • Lewy body dementia
  • Frontotemporal
  • Huntington’s
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What is Lewy Body dementia?

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Deposition of proteins (Lewy bodies) in brain cells in the brainstem/cortex.

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What is Hungtington’s?

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Movement disorder in which nerve cells degenerate/waste away.
-More frontal

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What is vascular dementia?

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Dementia cause by a lack of blood supply to the brain.

-e.g. due to small strokes

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What effect does treatment have on vascular dementia?

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Treatment may reduce the progression of vascular dementia, but not cure it.

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What is another name for Prion diseases?

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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

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What are Prion diseases?

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Collection of neurodegenerative diseases where pathogens&raquo_space; abnormal folding of proteins.
-often accompanied by triphasic EEG waves

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Give an example of a Prion disease.

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).

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Are Prion diseases treatable?

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No, and they have rapid progression.

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What type of neurodegenerative disease is smoking thought to prevent?

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Parkinson’s.

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How do subcortical dementias normally present?

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Apathetic, forgetful, movement disorders.

-e.g. Parkinson’s

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How do cortical dementias normally present?

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Higher cortical abnormalities.

  • dysphasia, agnosia, aparaxia
  • e.g. Alzheimer’s
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How can neurodegenerative diseases functionally clasified? (2)

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  • Dementias (e.g. Alzheimer’s)

- Movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s)

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How are neurodegenerative diseases classified based on molecular-genetics? (3)

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  • Tauopathies
  • Synucleinopathies
  • Ubiquinopathies
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What is normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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Abnormal build up of CSF in the brain’s ventricles/cavities.

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What is the triad of problems that accompanies normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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  • Dementia
  • Gait disturbance
  • Urinary incontinence
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What are the 2 types of normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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  • Idiopathic

- Secondary

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What are possible causes of normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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  • Subarachnoid haemorrhage

- Infection (e.g. meningitis)

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What is ‘pulvinar sign’ a sign of?

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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD).

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What is VGKC Ab LE?

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Limbic encephalitis due to voltage-gated potassium channel antibody.

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What are possible symptoms of VGKC Ab LE ?

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  • Subacute memory loss
  • Psychiatric disturbance
  • Seizures
  • Hyponatraemia
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What may be present in the serum/CSF with GKC Ab LE?

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  • LGI1 subunit

- CASPR2

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Who was Auguste Deter?

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The first person to be diagnosed with dementia.

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Who was Alois Alzheimer?

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Doctor who diagnosed Auguste Deter with dementia.

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What are possible side effects of using anti-psychotics to treat dementia?

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Increased risk of stroke and death.

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How many stages of dementia are there to measure the level of independence?

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What are the symptoms of stage 1 of dementia, and what are the healthcare focuses?

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Changes in memory/personality/visuo-spatial abilities.

-rehabilitation and self-help

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What are the symptoms of stage 2 of dementia, and what are the healthcare focuses?

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Aphasia, apraxia, confusion, insomnia.

-Social care intervention, mental and physical services

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What are the symptoms of stage 3 of dementia, and what are the healthcare focuses?

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Resistiveness, incontinence, motor impairment.

-Same as stage 2 (social care intervention) & start advance planning

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What are the symptoms of stage 4 of dementia, and what are the healthcare focuses?

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Bedfast, mute, dysphasia.

-Advance planning, 1* and 2* care

38
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How frequent is incapacity in acutely ill medical in-patients?

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What proportion of patients with incapacity are cognitively impaired/unconscious?

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What is the limbic system?

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Network of nerves near the cortex.

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What does the limbic system control?

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Arousal, emotion, motivation, attention and memory.

42
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Where is most new information stored?

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Hippocampus.

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What are the main functions of the hippocampus?

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  • Stores new information.

- Centre of emotion, memory and autonomic NS (» integrate into the environment)

44
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What is cognition?

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The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding from thought and experience.

45
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Give the basic process of a brain microcircuit.

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Neuron&raquo_space; synapse&raquo_space; neurotransmitter&raquo_space; action potential.

46
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What are 4 different ways to classify neurodegenerative disorders?

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  • FUNCTIONAL (cognition/movement)
  • ANATOMICAL (e.g. coritcobasal dementia)
  • ETIOLOGICAL (e.g. vascular)
  • PROTEINOPATHY (e.g. taupathy)
47
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Give an example of a dementia caused by temporal, parietal and frontal degeneration.

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Alzheimer’s.

48
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Give an example of a dementia caused by multifocal degeneration.

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Corticobasal degeneration.

49
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Give an example of a dementia that affects cognition and movement.

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Dementia with Lewy Body.

50
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What are the 4 main proteins involved with dementia?

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  • B-amyloid
  • Tau
  • Alpha-synuclein
  • Ubiquitin
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How does B-amyloid cause dementia?

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Mutated protein&raquo_space; inappropriate folding and insoluble fibres.
» accumulation of fibrils
»amyloidosis & neurodegeneration

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What is the function of Tau normally?

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Proteins that stabilise microtubules in neurons.

53
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How does a defect in Tau lead to dementia?

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Defect&raquo_space; unstable, dysfunctioning microtubules.

-intracellular

54
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How does a-synuclein cause dementia?

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Can globulise&raquo_space; intereferes with the function of mitochondria & ER.
-intracellular

55
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What disorders is a-synuclein present in?

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Parkinsons and dementia.

56
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What is the function of Ubiquitin normally?

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Protein in eukaryotic cells that directs proteins to compartments in the cell.
-e.g.&raquo_space; proteosomes to be broken down

57
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How can Ubiquitin cause dementia?

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Mutation can damage cell and cause death.

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What are possible pathogenesis of dementia? (7)

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  • Oxidative stress
  • Excitotoxicity
  • Apoptosis
  • Cytokines
  • Genetic factors
  • Aging
  • Accumulation of abnormal proteins
59
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How can oxidative stress cause dementia?

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Leads to production of free radicals.

60
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How can excitotoxicity cause dementia?

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Glutamine stimulation.

61
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How can cytokines cause dementia?

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Cause an inflammatory response (?)

62
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How can ageing cause dementia?

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Decline in the efficiency of metabolic pathways.

63
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What are the 2 locations that abnormal proteins accumulate?

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  • Intracellular

- Extracellular

64
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Which proteins accumulate intracellularly? (4)

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  • Tau
  • a-Synuclein
  • Polyglutamine
  • Ubiquitin
65
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Which protein accumulates extracellularly?

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Amyloid (Azheimer’s).

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What are the macroscopic findings with dementia? (6)

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  • Decreased brain weight
  • Atrophy in cerebral gyri
  • Atrophy in white matter (corpus callosum)
  • Ventricular dilation
  • Atrophy in brainstem and cerebellum
  • Pale substantia nigra and locus ceruleus
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What are the microscopical findings with dementia? (5)

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  • Neuron loss (hippocampus, cerebral cortex)
  • Microvacuolation in cerebral neocortex
  • Attenuation in white matter
  • Wide perivascular spaces
  • Accumulation of abnormal proteins
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What sort of structures does amyloid form?

69
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What sort of structures does Tau form?

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Neurofibrillary tangles.

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What sort of structures does a-Synuclein form?

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Lewy bodies.

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What sort of structures does ubiquitin form?

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Pick’s bodies.

72
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What neurological problems does hippocampal atrophy cause?

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  • Difficulty learning new skills/facts

- Start to forget old skills

73
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What conditions are Braak and Braak stages used for? (2)

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  • Parkinsons

- Alzheimer’s

74
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What are the macroscopic findings in Lewy Body dementia? (2)

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  • Pale substantia nigra

- Atrophy (amygdala, cingulate gyrus, T/F/P lobes)

75
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What are the microscopic findings in Lewy Body dementia? (2)

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  • Neuronal loss (substantia nigra)

- Accumulation of a-Synuclein in neurons

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What are the macroscopic findings in Alzheimer’s? (3)

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  • Decreased brain weight
  • Atrophy of gyri and widening of sulci
  • Ventricular dilation
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What are the microscopic findings in Alzheimer’s? (3)

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  • Neuronal loss
  • Neuropil thread
  • Neuritic plaques
78
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What is a normal brain weight?

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1200-1400.

79
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What is the brain weight in people with Alzheimer’s?

80
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Name 3 forms of vascular dementia.

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  • Multi-infarct dementia
  • Binswanger’s disease
  • Arteriolosclerosis
81
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What is Binswanger’s disease?

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A form of small vessel vascular dementia caused by damage to white brain matter.

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